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Nature Haiku Poems

Haiku attentive to the living world, wild landscapes, and moments outdoors.

1,527 published haiku
still, heat thickened air
ripe peaches languish in trees
dreaming of the fall
Jennifer Montgomery Read poem →
Japanese garden -
I think I'll just spend the day
counting my blessings
Daniel Kolb Read poem →
Purple peony
salutes a radiant sun
shuns the dark of night
Valerie Staton Read poem →
My basil garden
Invaded with rosemary
Wards off mosquitos
Pj Amendolia Read poem →
bees flit through velvet
sway of sedge and pink foxglove
sun-dried clouds soak earth
Fatima Ammar Read poem →
Tiny buds open,
And then a lovely flower,
Soon a fading hue.
Paul C. Blake Read poem →
trees swollen with leaves
a red ball low in the sky
crimson foliage
Sylvia Semel Read poem →
on old sand scrubbed brick
senorita arching high
loves miles of blue sky
Amber Dennis Read poem →
The trees are humming,
Like they need to let off steam.
The wind train passes.
Cynthia Hammell Read poem →
I run with the fish
swim with birds and fly with toads
My dreams hold me tight
Erika Silva Read poem →
Damp leaves on slick tar
Gliding bicycle on film
Spinning and spinning
John Brady Read poem →
flowers we gathered
dying slowly in vases
they remember dirt
Dennis Herrell Read poem →
Eternal river
Sculpting the canyon below
Washing time away
David Gershan Read poem →
Under a half-moon
is a determined cricket
live and in concert
Billy Tuggle Read poem →
A season of change
Inevitably follows
One leaf in the wind
Miguel Angel Estefan Jr Read poem →
walking through the park
dewdrops reflect the full moon
winter night in bloom
Melissa Laussmann Read poem →
Summer birds in flight
Ducks and geese go drifting by
Stillness of the lake
Bruce Levine Read poem →
the crisp morning air
acrid smell of burning leaves
distant honk of geese
Bill Melton Read poem →
I'm starting over
just like every day does
sunrise, a bird song
Sandra Evans Read poem →
Dark, towering clouds
Afternoon showers bathe trees
New puddles for frogs
Suzanne Cottrell Read poem →
Stubs of brown corn stalks.
Songbirds silently wend south.
Clouds lower the sky.
David Anthony Sam Read poem →
silence stills the lake
dragonflies reflect rainbows
lightly on paper wings
Lianne Kamp Read poem →
waiting for the post
the sun preening like a bird
fourth tuesday of june
Pearl Kline Read poem →
Gold floods morning sky.
Black night sheds star-swept lining.
Onward comes the day.
Deborah Svatos Read poem →
Air after rain hangs
Silent. Fawn-spotted birches
Stretch, spindly, to sky.
Melanie Bell Read poem →
lake frozen over
a falling leaf lands gently
ice cracks like lightning
Justin Smith Read poem →
Silence created
By pine needles underfoot
Softens the forest
Donna Roy Read poem →
fresh washed sheets, sun-dried
crisp and summer-breeze scented
promise serene dreams
Shirley Harshenin Read poem →
pair of cardinals
eating green holly berries
wet with morning rain
Sandra Barnett Read poem →
silver crescent moon
a beacon of summer night
dancing on water
Melissa Laussmann Read poem →
shafts of moonlight pierce
trembling leaves on scarred limbs
the darkness falters
C L Killgore Read poem →
sitting on the shore
while I am fully present
the river flows by
Jodie Brown Read poem →
A long valley road
Curves under sycamore trees
Branches block the path
Pj Amendolia Read poem →
mountain cathedrals
thrust to the sky praising God
while I stand in awe
Chris Cross Read poem →
Meadow of candles
on a placid moonlit night
fireflies resting.
Mariangela Canzi Read poem →
light touches the leaves
the calm caress of sunshine
brief eternal friends
Tim Mueller Read poem →