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Sky, Moon & Stars Haiku Poems

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

754 published haiku
Air after rain hangs
Silent. Fawn-spotted birches
Stretch, spindly, to sky.
Melanie Bell Read poem →
fresh washed sheets, sun-dried
crisp and summer-breeze scented
promise serene dreams
Shirley Harshenin Read poem →
silver crescent moon
a beacon of summer night
dancing on water
Melissa Laussmann Read poem →
shafts of moonlight pierce
trembling leaves on scarred limbs
the darkness falters
C L Killgore Read poem →
mountain cathedrals
thrust to the sky praising God
while I stand in awe
Chris Cross Read poem →
light touches the leaves
the calm caress of sunshine
brief eternal friends
Tim Mueller Read poem →
present this moment
sun slips across horizon
I stand and wonder
Rebecca Olson Read poem →
Fall moon cold and bright
Cherry trees drop lonesome leaves -
What mountain hides you?
Carl Redick Read poem →
Rustling leaves whisper
Exposes hidden silence
Moon appears to smile
Dean Miller Read poem →
butterfly white moon
galaxies waltzing in time
a loon breaks silence
Jessica Dawson Read poem →
rolling flightless cloud
beyond the waking sun's eye
paints the land silver
Trent Jones Read poem →
Blazing scarlet sun
sinks behind brush fire of clouds,
consumes winter day.
Suzanne Cottrell Read poem →
pale translucent arc
prism light in a sun-rain sky
beautiful your lies
Susan K. Hagen Read poem →
the seeping moonlight
flows through the open window
puddles on the floor
Bill Melton Read poem →
cloudless winter sky
shimmering sun points on snow
sculpted rabbit tracks
Richard Bailly Read poem →
ray of sunshine
the dog digs
beneath the carpet
Maria Chiara Miduri Read poem →
clear autumnal sky
glowing sliver-crescent moon
Venus shines beside
Kent Mcquillen Read poem →
From her sad mouth curled
songs of love lived, lost, longed for.
Linking mud and stars.
Hannah-rose Tristram Read poem →
From ice skimmed waters
Mists rise, fusing earth with sky
Under splintered moon
Mary Crane Fahey Read poem →
Dead trees darkened skies
Winter silhouettes invert
Sparklers in July
Nicholas Campbell Read poem →
random shapes of clouds
imaginative sky art
- masterpieces, all
Roberta Beach Jacobson Read poem →
A white flag of foam
Waves far into the distance
Yielding sun to sea
Alisdair Hodgson Read poem →
With easel and paints
the sun paints a sky picture
a new born rainbow.
Duane Anderson Read poem →
After Spring sunset
Mist rises from the mountains
Spreading like a flood
Dennis Gilliam Read poem →
Snow on a full moon;
The bare branches click lightly
And then all is still.
Ian Sims Read poem →
sunshine beaten grass
longsweating mass of labor
softly river run
Che Pieper Read poem →
Those raindrops falling
slowly watermarking love
by pluvial skies
Megha Sood Read poem →
Stars are like diamonds.
The sky is Heaven's raven.
Beauty in the night.
Jolene Mcdonald Read poem →
late summer twilight
far across this empty lake
two or three voices
Sean O'connor Read poem →
Sunlight creating
Crystals, dancing on the waves
Infinite Spirit
Nanette Saylor Read poem →
Angel-winged petals
lift lacey fern fronds, fat dew,
baptism at dawn
Dawn Sly-terpstra Read poem →
backlit morning sun
translucent beryl green sky
sultry summer heat
Bill Melton Read poem →
the wren, heaven-bound --
it has again evaded
the children's pebbles
Aaron Barry Read poem →
Creek water is high
Still enough space on warm rock
Turtle sleeps in sun
Stephen Gretzer Read poem →
In the midst of night
Moonlight shines over the trees
Branches whispering
Jackie Zedalis Read poem →
sunshine, lemonade
ants find the watermelon
afternoon picnic
Rachel Zempel Read poem →