From Poetry Soup- Examples of Haiku

Examples of Haiku

Member Haiku Poem Examples Poem Details | by Rickie Elpusan liquid little stones liquid little stones skipping and skittering free on shared umbrellas Poem Details | by farah chamma Twilight Sealing eyes of sky, Descend upon straps of light, Dusk…now dreams the night... Poem Details | by kash poet her eyelashes' flicker before melting--- her eyelashes' flicker with my every breath Poem Details | by Celene Crescent Floating Sheep and Soft Sweet lullabies In a gold moon's cradle Wrapped by woolen ebony skies Stardust sleeps at night Poem Details | by Raul Moreno Mountain of Regrets As large boulders weep, Tears stream down sharp cheeks of stone: Sobbing precipice. Poem Details | by Gerard Keogh Jr. emerald envoys emerald envoys endure chilling reception.. scarlet suffering Poem Details | by EMMANUEL SAMSON STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Now my tendrilled soul, Has found its pergola-- Christ-- To wind its way up.... Poem Details | by Carolyn Devonshire Erosion (haiku) Gullies scar brown earth Hurricanes bring erosion Of both soil and lives Poem Details | by binibining p.iNk autumn confetti shower of gold and red-- dance with butterflies Poem Details | by Rickie Elpusan knee deep in N'awlins tempest stomps her feet as she shakes her liquid skirt knee deep in N'awlins Poem Details | by Leon Stacey Night Owls Their covenant wings Like cherubim on alters Spread out for preying Poem Details | by Drake Eszes Detach Violet tulips Each petal flips, another Memory of you ©Drake J. Eszes Poem Details | by Charmaine Chircop Haiku 57 about the rose wings flutter on a moist petal rose nectar Poem Details | by kash poet cherry blossom cherry blossoms--- the Fukushima sky again smiling pink ################ Poem Details | by daver austin AUTUMNAL WHIMSY AUTUMNAL WHIMSY a late blooming few rose leaves with mottled silver autumnal whimsy

Famous Haiku Poem Examples An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. - Basho (1644-1694) Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow. - Soseki (1275-1351) In the twilight rain these brilliant-hued hibiscus . . . A lovely sunset - Matsuo Basho Toward those short trees We saw a hawk descending On a day in spring - Shiki The day we saw the hawk On a churchyard tree A kite too Was in the far sky. - Hekigodo The wren Earns his living Noiselessly. - Issa The wren Earns his living Noiselessly. - Issa From time to time The clouds give rest To the moon-beholders. - Bashō Over-ripe sushi, The Master Is full of regret. - Buson Consider me As one who loved poetry And persimmons. - Shiki In the cicada's cry No sign can foretell How soon it must die. - Bashō Blowing from the west Fallen leaves gather In the east. - Buson Winter seclusion - Listening, that evening, To the rain in the mountain. - Issa My life, - How much more of it remains? The night is brief. - Shiki An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. - Bashō I kill an ant and realize my three children have been watching. - Kato Shuson Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow. - Soseki Sparrow's child out of the way, out of the way! the stallion's coming through - Issa Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. Richard Wright (1908-1960) Snow in my shoe Abandoned Sparrow’s nest Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)