Animals & Wildlife Haiku Poems

sweet golden lap-dog
all eighty-five pounds of you
got enough room there?

Jackie Maugh Robinson Read poem →

Red-tailed carnivore
dive-bombs cottontail rabbit;
geranium snow.

Shelly Reed Thieman Read poem →

The lily felt loved
'till the bee pollinated
again and again.

Hayli Cox Read poem →

water lily croaks
painting a smile on my face
I find Basho's frog

Ana Prundaru Read poem →

November the first -
descending down a dry leaf
a very slow snail

Ana Drobot Read poem →

Dewy chilly morn,
Sun begins to warm the earth-
Horse whinnies hello.

Rick Hurst Read poem →

Half a rabbit seen
by full moon. The unseen half?
Rabbit all the same.

John Macdonald Read poem →

state hospital graves
nameless deer graze among stones
inscribed in numbers

Tyson West Read poem →

noble fox at play
entangled in compassion
vixen and kits thrive

Alan Todd Trembath Read poem →

fish beneath dark waves
thunderclouds invade the sky
you stay safe below

Tara Burnham Read poem →

Exhilaration
Open my mouth really wide
Caught a butterfly

Brian Feuerstack Read poem →

Snow melt swells river
Spring flows scour the landscape
Fish find calm water

Dean Miller Read poem →

Birds quietly chirp
As grass sways gently in time
Mice pause to listen

Zach Agnew Read poem →

A sip of nectar
from the petals of beauty?
a butterfly dance

Keith Simmonds Read poem →

deer in the backyard
grazing then disappearing
leaving emptiness

Sandra Barnett Read poem →

Butterfly flutters
Washing buckets not a chore
The hummingbird stays

Carolyn Fields Read poem →

Red clover meadow
Queen Anne nods her lacey head
A speckled fawn naps.

Gail Cartee Read poem →

snake and buzzard pause
shoes tread in waterless land
midday sands shimmer

L. Mad Hildebrandt Read poem →

Glistening green snake
Weaving down through the valley -
Our mountain river

Chris Ryall Read poem →

silk tendrils flutter
the garden fence firmament
fat white spider star

Tyson West Read poem →

autumn butterflies
the warm golds and crisp crimsons
I mistook for leaves

Tracy Davidson Read poem →

Wolf on Highway 2
dissolves into the forest
like a bell, unrung

Marc Beaudin Read poem →

The night's only star ?
a moth caught in the streetlight
Still, I make my wish

Marc Beaudin Read poem →

a sly red fox hides
under the magnolia ?
patches of old snow

Sandra Barnett Read poem →

heavenly beauty
suspended in the night sky
woeful baying wolf

Johnny Franco Read poem →

Beneath the sharp lance,
The blue joker moth dances
Hysterically.

Cecil Geary Read poem →

Bushy tail curves low,
ears alert to our presence.
The wolf backs away.

Deborah Hansen Read poem →

Dewdrops kissing lace.
Amid this beauty, danger.
Wily spider waits.

Deborah Hansen Read poem →

Leopards hunt silent
the breeze carries leaves gone by
the Fox dies alone

Rachel Lewis Read poem →

a ghost of herself
the doe treads on damp mosses
just before sunrise

Barbara Tate Read poem →

Tricky is the Fox,
Somersaulting through the Truth.
Caught in her own trap.

Jodi Steele Read poem →

a squirrel jumps from
tree to tree on high branches ?
Vivaldi CD

Sandra Barnett Read poem →

Horse race in late May
black-eyed Susans in their vase
whiskey burns ice cubes.

Beau Boudreaux Read poem →

Sleeping coil of snake
slithered as my shadow fell -
rope slipped the bollard

Miken Namwen Read poem →

Eyes above water
Watching dragonfly on twig
Flash of sticky tongue

Bill Melton Read poem →

an ant parachutes!
no, a dandelion seed
skydiving to earth

Don Bouquet Read poem →