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Sky, Moon & Stars Haiku Poems

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

760 published haiku
Longhaired hippie girls
Nag Champa scented beauties
Dance in moon lit fields
Joe Cover Read poem →
saturn sits on black
expansive sky stretches on
glow in the dark moon
Chris Epting Read poem →
teabag's in the cup
someone's sitting on the porch
steeping in the sun
Reuven Goldfarb Read poem →
Russet colored oak
leaves, a dazzle of color
sigh as the sun cools
Portia Reilly Read poem →
field diving into
a river - weeping willows
cradling the full moon
Djurdja Vukelic Rozic Read poem →
The sun, failing to
reason with its reflection,
sinks like Narcissus
Andrea Ang Read poem →
Moon glow cast shadows,
Stretch across the pale lit floor.
The usher of dreams.
Thomas Hayes Read poem →
sun on the water
grey-green with a squint becomes
sea spirits dancing
Genevieve Fitzgerald Read poem →
Lightning in the dark.
The mating call of insects
beneath distant stars.
Jb Mulligan Read poem →
Moon phases reveal
Dual personalities -
First timid, then bold
Audrey Walstrom Read poem →
Holding the orange
To the sky it glows and glows
Like a newborn sun.
Karissa Barrera Read poem →
Blackness weights the sky
of a city damp with grief--
Norwegian summer
Debbie Hall Read poem →
for you a flaming
japanese maple rising
in a sun-blue sky
Donnelle Mcgee Read poem →
Sunset rise again
Shine darkness upon the land
Warm rays of moonlight
Beth Mayes Read poem →
Sing the blood flowers
The rice starving in the bowl
Down here is the moon
Aaron Poller Read poem →
A mountain, peeking?
summer bringing clearer skies,
the robin warbling.
Nathan Hunt Read poem →
hear birds spreading joy
music waking dawn today
around their feeder
Richard Weed Read poem →
the twilight of youth
too quick childhood fades away
bitter is wisdom
Jennifer Schmitt Read poem →
Quiet winter day
New moon visible at noon
Two crows flying west
W. Luther Jett Read poem →
Rose hues on gray sky
Earth blue islands faraway
Worlds where no one dies.
L.b. Williams Read poem →
Dawn's light holds in breath --
A heron strikes bright water,
Scattering the sun.
Douglas Bishop Read poem →
Sun has disappeared
Movement in the ancient pine
A chickadee flits
David Petreman Read poem →
Birch leaves: propellers
Twirling sunlight into green
You hear the wind blow
David Petreman Read poem →
Birds ripple the wine-
colored sunset, hoisting sails
on the summer sea.
Mary Sayler Read poem →
stark leaf-stripped branches
good-bye kisses on doorsteps
harvest moon waning
Gregory Stenta Read poem →
silence on the beach
your sky vast and crystal clear
my heart wide open
Virginie Colline Read poem →
sunset through white clouds
a panoply of colors
yielding to darkness
Christina Murphy Read poem →
Amidst the darkness
I look down the milky way
Of the city light
Anthony Ward Read poem →
Sunset at the lake~
Empty Adirondack chairs
face autumn's twilight.
M.j. Iuppa Read poem →
pink orchard blossoms
swayed by the breeze greet the sun
diffusing sweet scent
Rosie Pova Read poem →
Air conditioner
white-noise: copper-silver wind,
electric heaven.
Robert Graves Read poem →
Her starry surf burns
The ocean is crystal grey
salty Milky Way
Robert Graves Read poem →
across a gray sky
ragged red streaks like war paint
tribal chants in tow
Christopher Hivner Read poem →
Feather snow hardens
To cold white steel, by sun's glare
That fades its glory.
Jeremy Rich Read poem →
Dawn on the Ganges
Distant bells, a twirling leaf
Strokes the quiet calm.
Dipika Mukherjee Read poem →
The clear azure sky
That stretches over our heads
Makes one feel so small
Dale Phillips Read poem →