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Animals & Wildlife Haiku Poems

Haiku observing animals, insects, and the traces wild creatures leave.

254 published haiku
jumbo honey bee
bumbling out of my mailbox
drunk on Vogue nectar
Ron Scully Read poem →
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 →