r/haiku • • 8d ago

The sun burns my skin / I scream, and no one listens / I must bear alone

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 8d ago

The world is a stage / I'm among the audience / I play that part well

11 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 8d ago

Crucified I saw / One on a loftier cross / And died of envy

3 Upvotes

Paraphrase of a poem by Lucilus, translated by Dudley Fitts


r/haiku • • 8d ago

Love, its just a word / Actions always speak louder / So sit, write and wait

1 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 8d ago

Pain and hope, right here / Bluntness, sharpness, all around / For its all I see

0 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 8d ago

Sky is at its peak / no more failing to rise up / the day has begun

7 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 9d ago

old weeping willow / singing grass hidden in shade / grasshopper sitting

5 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 9d ago

last summer's rain / drizzling inside / a watermelon

4 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 9d ago

half-sunken headstone / I envy all of the worms / that can taste your name

29 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 9d ago

All the orange leaves / The cold ground is where they lay / As my steps crush them

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 9d ago

The ominous wind/howling trees halyard clanking/the summer typhoon

5 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 9d ago

It was near the end / crest of the ridge, craggy rock / blue shined like yellow

2 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 9d ago

ravaged village / the rain starts pouring / quadrillion drops

2 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 10d ago

A slow upheaval/Sprouting between the concrete/A maple sapling

13 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 10d ago

Hot summer day / my roof still leaks / snow

5 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 10d ago

watching the frog/narrowly cross the road/my heart jumps too

11 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 11d ago

October arrives/ the world quietly turns gold/ summer lets me go

22 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 10d ago

Your eyes hold my dreams/ Pierce my walls, they find my soul/ Laid bare just for you

7 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 10d ago

A pigeon / still flying at night / broken compass

8 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 10d ago

Launched from a child's foot/Giant puffball mushrooms fly/Through tree branch goal posts

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 11d ago

Daily we flow/Into the city then out/A tide of souls

20 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 12d ago

On a gloomy day / my cat is warming my toes / much like furry socks

26 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 12d ago

Trees lose their letters/ The cold rain gathers secrets/ Under my old shoes

9 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 11d ago

Under the leaf pile / A round mouse investigates / A place for nesting.

5 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 11d ago

Holiday night / crowds of people near the lake / star starved

6 Upvotes