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Sky, Moon & Stars Haiku Poems

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

760 published haiku
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 →
Backlit by the moon
Stark skeleton of branches
Pierce the evening sky
Bill Melton Read poem →
the last dregs of snow
live and die by the Sun's glance-
feeding daffodils
Catherine Minnehan Read poem →
my flower garden
once again in its full bloom -
watching falling stars
Ana Drobot Read poem →
The first green of spring
protruding from snow and soil-
presents from the Sun
Catherine Minnehan Read poem →
You wake me gently
reach to me and warm my skin
Good morning sun ray
Sarah Lunsford Read poem →
Balance of nature
The sun rises, the sun sets
All in symmetry
Mark Volz Read poem →
Early morning chores
Orion fills the West sky
I fill grain buckets
Tyler Pierce Read poem →
all yellow leaves flee
the cold birch limbs above me
stars sprout on her twigs
Tyson West Read poem →
Nebulous shadows
Of moonlight slowly swaying
To a gentle breeze
Bill Melton Read poem →
Beauty, so fragile
Dependent on warming sun
I ache to touch you.
Julie Laing Read poem →
cold lonely day--sky
a seamless gray canopy
your knock on the door
Nells Wasilewski Read poem →
a light west wind blows,
blind to large looming black clouds,
young boys crab at dusk.
Pamela Corbett Read poem →
a ghost of herself
the doe treads on damp mosses
just before sunrise
Barbara Tate Read poem →
Sunset-splattered peach
Bleeding end-of-summer wine -
A tree hangover
Michelle Burchett Read poem →
Sun-lit windows, each
a brief torch against the world
of nicks and splinters
James Roderick Burns Read poem →
hiding in her voice
susurrations of heaven
raindrops sing backup
C. Z. Heyward Read poem →
White crystal shrouded
Crisp beautiful blades of green
Gone with morning sun
Carl Oman Read poem →
Moon rides on the waves
Night after night ritual
Walking in the sand
Joseph J Kozma Read poem →
clouds on clouds, waves on
waves in the summer sunset
footprints in the sand
Nancy May Read poem →
A stone's drought whispers
As it lies amidst the sun
Dry in summer's end
John Hutchinson Read poem →
Don't seek my presence
And compare it to heaven,
Rather stay grounded
Chris A Ruiz Read poem →
Sun shining? Grey clouds?
Wind? Is it going to rain?
Miami Weather
Hashenaa Francois Read poem →
Patterns in the sky
Ripples replace reflections
Stillness is silenced
Yanee Amador Read poem →
sun's brilliant sparkle
turquoise blue ocean abounds
pelicans gliding
Joan Gove Read poem →
Floating through the sky
Red and yellow orange and blue
A hot air balloon.
Ben Tapp Read poem →
Alfalfa buds bloom
Purple in the morning sun
Winter arrives soon
Robin Sprafka Read poem →
white bark of aspens
powdered with antler velvet-
autumn moon shadows
Jackie Maugh Robinson Read poem →
Pastel-painted sky,
white wisps of cirrus soaring,
palace for the moon.
Hayli Cox Read poem →
White moonlight slivers
Reveal diamonds on blue waves
Bright nocturnal gems
Sarah Lunsford Read poem →
palm tree fronds slapping
violent Santa Anas
a sinister moon
Abra Deering Norton Read poem →