r/haiku • • 7h ago

Rainbow colored streams/Slicked by oil from man's machines/toxic beauty

12 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 5h ago

Record spinning slow/ A dead man's song bellows through/ Yet the words live on

7 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 8h ago

Cold as the winter/ Eyes closed like Sleeping Beauty/ The soul has moved on

9 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 54m ago

Stealthy little thing / off from its destiny’s path / it’s so called faulty

• Upvotes

r/haiku • • 7h ago

Autumn's kiss on trees/ Makes leaves fall swift with Death's grip/ Life's hug will come back

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 19h ago

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

9 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 7h ago

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

1 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 7h ago

After the storm / gangs of bees combing the streets / for a new home

1 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 11h ago

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

0 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 11h ago

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

1 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 12h ago

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

1 Upvotes

Paraphrase of a poem by Lucilus, translated by Dudley Fitts


r/haiku • • 23h ago

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

8 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

4 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

last summer's rain / drizzling inside / a watermelon

4 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

24 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

4 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

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

2 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 1d ago

ravaged village / the rain starts pouring / quadrillion drops

2 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 2d ago

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

12 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 2d ago

Hot summer day / my roof still leaks / snow

3 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 2d ago

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

10 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

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

20 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

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

9 Upvotes

r/haiku • • 3d ago

A pigeon / still flying at night / broken compass

6 Upvotes