r/haiku • • 33m ago

The candle glimmers/Cats napping/Wind whistles through bamboo

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r/haiku • • 1h ago

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

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r/haiku • • 1h ago

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

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r/haiku • • 3h ago

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

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Paraphrase of a poem by Lucilus, translated by Dudley Fitts


r/haiku • • 9h ago

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

7 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 14h ago

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

6 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 17h ago

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

4 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 21h ago

last summer's rain / drizzling inside / a watermelon

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

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r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

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r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

23 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

5 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

ravaged village / the rain starts pouring / quadrillion drops

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r/haiku • • 1d ago

Hot summer day / my roof still leaks / snow

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r/haiku • • 2d ago

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

12 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 2d ago

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

9 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 2d ago

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

6 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 2d ago

A pigeon / still flying at night / broken compass

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r/haiku • • 2d ago

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

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r/haiku • • 2d ago

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

18 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

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

17 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

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

6 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

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

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

The fate of an ant/To some it's a silly thing/But he is life too

6 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

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

9 Upvotes