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Birds Haiku Poems

Haiku following wings, calls, nests, migrations, and encounters with birds.

295 published haiku
a single heron
skimming over rough ploughed fields
- all the fish fossils
David Davies Read poem →
Hawk moth in the grass
Belly pressed to stem, to shoots.
Spring flutters my heart.
Nancy Grudens-schuck Read poem →
mockingbird flying
circles around clunky crow . . .
white patches flashing
Sandra Barnett Read poem →
birds and crickets chirp
locusts bounce in high grasses
Arboretum dawn
Maria Depaul Read poem →
Feather-light, haiku
descend on the sleeping heart,
then close their talons
Neil Harrison Read poem →
Ghostly glow of moon
Unsung songs of sleeping birds
Waiting to emerge
Emily Eshom Read poem →
Rain falls. Leaves begin
to spring. Little lambs skip. Birds
couple, build and sing.
Monty Gilmer Read poem →
Leaves flutter and turn
Wrapped in wind, dark clouds, and rain
Still the robin sings
Martha Shaw Read poem →
hawk with mouse alights
fence post's quiet tenancy
salutes carmine dawn
Kim Spencer Read poem →
flying day old bread
seagull pleads with wanting eyes?
proceeds with caution
Jessica Dawson Read poem →
hanging from a branch
where birds nested in the spring
icicles in pairs
Jayshree Iyer Read poem →
Here above the clouds
Seeing the freeway below
Looking down at birds
Carolyn Smuts Read poem →
forsythia burst
slumbered gardens awaken
birds rejoice in song
Patricia Rossi Read poem →
covered by fresh snow
the kale roots sipping the melt:
birds peck at the edge
Deborah Guzzi Read poem →
Grey bowed wing heron
lands as sentry of quick death~
pickerels dart deep
Miken Namwen Read poem →
sparrow-heart, darling
do you drink from the river?
taking stones inside
Lucy Ryan Read poem →
Beneath the orchard
giant fruit tarantulas
sweeten their spring nests.
Val Dube Read poem →
Anhinga bird stretch
Waking the morning stillness
Warming my new day
Daniel Tardona Read poem →
Interrogation
Tree echoes the woodpecker
Reverberation
Rick Hartwell Read poem →
bright green stalks swaying
high rows of September corn
one crow standing guard
Ralph Culver Read poem →
snow laced window pane
cardinal perched on barren bough
winter solitude
Patricia Rossi Read poem →
Crows devil the sky
Torn old rags of sooty wings
Ghosts of Strathnaver
Alastair Jackson Read poem →
red roses in mud
pink sky dripping falling stars
sparrow shakes a worm
Ronald Jones Read poem →
Eagles soar so high
Sentinels in the blue sky
Feathers drift - a Gift!
Michele Paquette Read poem →
Birds whisper sweet songs
hidden voices in the bark
a choir brings day.
Lynette Esposito Read poem →
Hummingbirds dancing
Ballet to the beat of wings
In the air above
Tammy Snyder Read poem →
Birds quietly chirp
As grass sways gently in time
Mice pause to listen
Zach Agnew Read poem →
Morning on water
winds blow revelry through leaves
a heron splashes
Angell Caudill Read poem →
tattered wings flutter
beneath the hunter moon's glow
a mallard's last cry
Charmaine Chircop Read poem →
Painted white-on-white:
Great White Egret, wings spread wide
in a cloudy sky.
Jane Beal Read poem →
Butterfly flutters
Washing buckets not a chore
The hummingbird stays
Carolyn Fields Read poem →
Spiral clouds of birds
Over golden, ghostly Rome
A cold, spring twilight
Jonathan Yom Tov Read poem →
Sentinel Blackbird
Posted high on cattail stem
Red badge wings hold sway
Warren Reinecke Read poem →
the song of an owl
a sweet shiver on the spine
fall's pale moon quivers
Susan Gale Wickes Read poem →
pink sky in April
tangled in honeysuckle
hummingbird's delight
Anna Cates Read poem →
storks moving their wings
all over the setting sun -
a goodbye message
Ana Drobot Read poem →