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Sky, Moon & Stars Haiku Poems

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

754 published haiku
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 →
above the treetops
a scattering of swallows
cross the summer moon
Tracy Davidson Read poem →
The night's only star ?
a moth caught in the streetlight
Still, I make my wish
Marc Beaudin Read poem →
midnight illusion
leafy branches reach skyward
holding moon aloft
Nells Wasilewski Read poem →
heavenly beauty
suspended in the night sky
woeful baying wolf
Johnny Franco Read poem →
walking clasping hands
twilight trail circles the lake
fog oroboros
Tyson West Read poem →
A weak winter sun
Vainly struggles to burn through
Winter's icy fog
Bill Melton Read poem →