Birds Haiku Poems

heron and gator
side by side on lagoon bank
early morn detente

Frank Cavano Read poem →

Red robin singing,
Caught amidst a thorny bush,
Her song remains sweet.

Daphne Lee Read poem →

mercurial bird
dives into honeysuckle...
perfume beads scatter

Kenda Turner Read poem →

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 →