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Sky, Moon & Stars Haiku Poems

Celestial haiku looking upward to daylight, night skies, and distant light.

760 published haiku
inebriated
consoled by the blood red moon
thoughts of you be still
Tim Smith Read poem →
Tide is moving in
Crabs find shelter in the sand
Fullest moon ever
Joseph J Kozma Read poem →
the sun covers me
warming my soul as always
with mercy and love
Linda Jenkinson Read poem →
Four cows munching grass
Lightning bugs blinking in trees
Dusk ? a summer day
Angell Caudill Read poem →
tattered wings flutter
beneath the hunter moon's glow
a mallard's last cry
Charmaine Chircop Read poem →
Reaching towards the sky
proud stalks with radiant blooms
face the golden sun.
Alexandra Heep Read poem →
Cancer took my friend
She was the Sun to my Moon
I play solitaire
Allison Cowzer Read poem →
Light means more at night
Nudity means more in light
You?ll mean more at dawn
Miguel Eichelberger Read poem →
summer sun dripping
liquid gold across the roof
fourteen caret dawn
Nells Wasilewski Read poem →
Painted white-on-white:
Great White Egret, wings spread wide
in a cloudy sky.
Jane Beal Read poem →
the rustle of leaves
quicker than the moon can hide
more naked branches
Joann Grisetti Read poem →
Spiral clouds of birds
Over golden, ghostly Rome
A cold, spring twilight
Jonathan Yom Tov Read poem →
sun-kissed horizon
Nocturne bows out gracefully
gossamer moment
Michelle Wallace Read poem →
raindrops trickle down
lightning flashes angry skies
longing for rainbows
Rachel Zempel Read poem →
A thin haze of fog
softens the morning sunrise
a cantaloupe sky
Bill Melton Read poem →
Rising from water
the sun's lance piercing the cloud
brings enlightenment
Sally Long Read poem →
when Canis Major
walks its paws across night skies
it bites a bone moon
Salvatore Buttaci Read poem →
Firelight flickers
Ancient sunshine freed from wood
Faces glow with warmth
River Stillwood Read poem →
the song of an owl
a sweet shiver on the spine
fall's pale moon quivers
Susan Gale Wickes Read poem →
silk tendrils flutter
the garden fence firmament
fat white spider star
Tyson West Read poem →
Night bursts with color
Spectators gaze up dazzled
Independence stars
Lois Battersby Read poem →
bright silver ribbon
moonlight slash on cold water
cold as grey ashes
Jay Cates Read poem →
Luminous dust cloud
New moon over ripe cherries
Memories dry out
Richard Flick Read poem →
Soft unfurling fern
Fragile sprout at break of dawn
Moist with morning dew
Iris Peters Read poem →
manatees floating
the Blue Spring mirroring sky
crowded zeppelins
Johanna Lane Read poem →
pink sky in April
tangled in honeysuckle
hummingbird's delight
Anna Cates Read poem →
September sunset?
winding into forever
the bucolic roads
Anna Cates Read poem →
storks moving their wings
all over the setting sun -
a goodbye message
Ana Drobot Read poem →
black crow flaps its wings
suspended on a wind gust
blotting out the sun
Loreena Thiessen Read poem →
The darkening sky
softly exhales its last wish
early autumn rain
Souvik Chakraborty Read poem →
Kisses from the sun
Burning lips leave me frozen
The touch of Midas
Jorge Gutierrez Read poem →
decaying sandbags
bursting after so much sun
spilt like torn grain sacks
Dennis Lowe Read poem →
low in the turquoise
a rising moon and people
strolling here and there
Dennis Lowe Read poem →
dark night heaven smiles
winter sighs chill fingers stretch
bullfrogs sing aloud
M. Kari Barr Read poem →
between two tall trees
a single fallen oak leaf --
color of sunset
Frank Graham Read poem →
The sounds puddles make -
face down, tearing into clouds,
reflecting calm skies.
Tyler Pierce Read poem →