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Summer Haiku Poems

Warm-weather haiku filled with long light, heat, insects, and abundance.

219 published haiku
Summer humid haze
Cloaking the earth in white gauze
Of sleepy tumor
Bill Melton Read poem →
languid August night
gliding in his huge Chrysler
how far is Kansas?
Sarah Blackman Read poem →
this year summer flames
washington wails with no tears
warm hot wind blows west
Zachary Malone Read poem →
Japanese maple --
the garden Buddha's Bodhi
in late summer light
Sandra Barnett Read poem →
rasp of cicadas
vibrates through the evening heat
rattles the dishes
Dottie Piet Read poem →
anticipation
summer is finally here
and gone in a flash
Kate Jones Read poem →
naked at nineteen
sand litters damp moonlit sheets
our endless summer
Tyson West Read poem →
Billow of fragrance
Wafting sultry summer breeze
Honeysuckles bloom
Bill Melton Read poem →
Four cows munching grass
Lightning bugs blinking in trees
Dusk ? a summer day
Angell Caudill Read poem →
summer brings colors
vibrant paintings surround us
God's masterpieces
Susan Gentry Read poem →
summer sun dripping
liquid gold across the roof
fourteen caret dawn
Nells Wasilewski Read poem →
summer's passion yields
multi-colored hydrangeas
floral fulfillment
Michelle Wallace Read poem →
morning summer breeze
a concentric draft ascends
white oak leaves tremble
Dennis Thompson Read poem →
above the treetops
a scattering of swallows
cross the summer moon
Tracy Davidson Read poem →
summer tomatoes
ripening on green tendrils
promises to keep
Jackie Maugh Robinson Read poem →
hummingbirds hover
sipping sweet summer cider
through delicate straws
Elizabeth F. Hill Read poem →
golden leaves trip down
tawny toads slow hop away
summer bows to fall
John Lawrence Darretta Read poem →
Sunset-splattered peach
Bleeding end-of-summer wine -
A tree hangover
Michelle Burchett Read poem →
clouds on clouds, waves on
waves in the summer sunset
footprints in the sand
Nancy May Read poem →
Hard tug on my line
summer speckled trout, redfish
flip in the ice chest.
Beau Boudreaux Read poem →
A stone's drought whispers
As it lies amidst the sun
Dry in summer's end
John Hutchinson Read poem →
Dandelions float
On summer's ponds like bodies
Float on winter's lakes
Nicoly Santos Read poem →
Eyes above water
Watching dragonfly on twig
Flash of sticky tongue
Bill Melton Read poem →
dried yellow leaves
the cottonwood in autumn
tells summer's secrets
Barbara Tate Read poem →
summer's backward glance
reluctant to say adieu
one lonely white rose
David Austin Read poem →
summer's backward glance
reluctant to say adieu
one lonely white rose
David Austin Read poem →
September's summer:
white clematis cloaks fences,
bronze scuppernongs pop.
Leanne E Smith Read poem →
Warm summer rains pass,
skies are clear again: why not
forgiveness so swift?
Kineret Yardena Read poem →
The fruits of summer
Visible before my eyes...
Feeling glorified
Maryam Qureshi Read poem →
Thunder in the hills
summer blows through the dry grass?
too much left undone
Dennis Lowe Read poem →
Rocks click like crickets
air like shimmering water
desert summer heat
Jin Koh Read poem →
children roll downhill
prickles of freshly mown grass
summer sour sweetness
Sarah Blackman Read poem →
july afternoon
spent looking round old churches
damp palms together
Pipzi Williams Read poem →
the summer has come
with those blazing shades of red
flavorful cherries
Valentina Ranaldi-adams Read poem →
chill winds laboring
summer dies a sultry death
the birth of autumn
Nells Wasilewski Read poem →
Dragonfly alights
Reed slowly bends toward water
Frog watches below
Bill Melton Read poem →