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Sky, Moon & Stars Haiku Poems

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

754 published haiku
Watermelon sky
Spider web catches the prey
Sundown crudit's.
Pamela Gemme Read poem →
red sun in the sky
I hold between my fingers
then flick it away
Loreena Thiessen Read poem →
sounding geese point dark
against the buttermilk sky
frost thorns guard birch twigs
Tyson West Read poem →
days of love and war
baby birds open beaks wide
reaching for the sky
Paul Hellweg Read poem →
Moonlight sits with me
as I study French travel.
Its shoulder, I rest.
Kaila Philo Read poem →
fireworks in the sky
my brother-in-law gasps for
air on his deathbed
John Han Read poem →
tangerine sunrise
spring wakes buds on birch branches-
sleepless night, child sick
Pam Hauck Read poem →
Sun claws at the clouds
Frantically trying to see
The earth far below
Bill Melton Read poem →
stars unlatch themselves
at dawn from the Harvest Moon
dissolve like weak dreams
Julie Degarie Read poem →
Weighted red petals
spring lively, greeting sun, when
morning dew drops drip
Alissa Oliverson Read poem →
Easily unfurled
thirteen stripes and fifty stars
tree tops touch the ground
David Edwards Read poem →
Guardians wrap me
in feathers and pine. Lift me
until I am sky.
Joe Nicholas Read poem →
today's joy unfolds
quiet gladness celebrate
under summer moon
Chris Gusek Read poem →
Knees bent at sunrise
Longevity lost to fate
Headstones cast shadows
Valerie Obrien Read poem →
when the winter comes
the sunlight over the snow
heaven fell to earth
Amada Burgard Read poem →
grayish, frozen sky
a bitter wind howls at night;
snowy, hushed footfall
Clarise Samuels Read poem →
Half snake, half human
Fuxi repaired the heavens;
Gong Gong broke the sky
Clarise Samuels Read poem →
Desolation in
the wood. The winter moon shows
only death tonight.
Elias Red Read poem →
one day spring appears--
dirt, sun, rain, the tilt of Earth--
it lives beyond words
Grace Hughes Chappell Read poem →
westward setting sun
the moon rising right on time
one crow, my night friend
Zachary Malone Read poem →
ice shards bite elm twigs
catch shine from jupiter who
chances the sun's wake
Tyson West Read poem →
faraway winds might
hide under borneo skies
between monsoon days
Colin Campbell Read poem →
another sunset
blink, the horizon swallows
all the golden light
Tamara De Dominicis Read poem →
Picasso blue sky
leaking total solitude
out of the guitar.
Elvis Fix Read poem →
streetlights at midnight
spillage of suspended stars
radio crackling
Anthony Ward Read poem →
bent grass tells of flood,
spent before the morning sun
frogs croak for their mates
Carol Phillips Read poem →
unabashed voyeur
solemn keeper of secrets
moon smiles crookedly
Grady Manus Read poem →
Aging white cement
Peeking over great black clouds
Old moon's glowing scalp
Dennis Lowe Read poem →
harvest moon aglow
long witchy fingers reach out
brittle leaves tango
Ed Fawkes Read poem →
stars shimmer, sparkle
luminious asterisk shoot
decorate a wish
Yasmin Khan Read poem →
The horizon blurs
Mars red dust floats, chokes the birds
Lubbock, Texas sky
Robert Graves Read poem →
Mist drapes oak branches
Moon's light casts subdued shadows
Crickets call... it's night.
Joan Gove Read poem →
camping at the lake
a treetop cradles the moon
sleeping with the stars
Nells Wasilewski Read poem →
sunfish in the sky
clouds dipping like quick minnows
turning lavender
Cynthia Sharp Read poem →
Watermelon slice
Ammunition against heat
Spitting seeds toward sun
Tina Mckeon Read poem →
how new the smile that
brightens, christens arrival---
sib's share in heaven
Jesus Chameleon Read poem →