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Nature Haiku Poems

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

1,508 published haiku
My summer garden
Romaine lettuce straight and tall -
Friends come to my gate
Carl Redick Read poem →
rolling flightless cloud
beyond the waking sun's eye
paints the land silver
Trent Jones Read poem →
Blazing scarlet sun
sinks behind brush fire of clouds,
consumes winter day.
Suzanne Cottrell Read poem →
last summer's beech leaves
hang tough in the heavy snow -
they're stubborn that way
David Richardson Read poem →
five inches of snow
enough to hide the debris
walks don't clear themselves
Jack Maze Read poem →
pale translucent arc
prism light in a sun-rain sky
beautiful your lies
Susan K. Hagen Read poem →
iced pond, heron poised
silver gleams through cracked surface
frozen dinner served
Christa Planko Read poem →
Dolphin surfer girl
Intimate sea connection
Makes each wave her own
Donna Roy Read poem →
crisp cool air blowing
colored leaves snap between toes
autumn imminent
Joan Fingon Read poem →
The sound of the sea
Poetry to my psyche
Siren's song to soul
Shirley Smothers Read poem →
Wind on a mountain
whips snow high into piles
toppling time beneath.
Duane Anderson Read poem →
cloudless winter sky
shimmering sun points on snow
sculpted rabbit tracks
Richard Bailly Read poem →
smiling summer falls
autumnal leaves pale and pass
weary winter springs
John Lawrence Darretta Read poem →
Winter where we are
Brings a steady wash of rain
Nobody complains
Michael Gorkin Read poem →
farewell to winter-
old trees adorn new garments
spring's ribbons of light
Melissa Laussmann Read poem →
four squirrels running
playing in frosty new snow
silence after storm
Sandra Barnett Read poem →
Lepidoptera
flying on gossamer wings
nature's work of art
Valerie Staton Read poem →
My seventy third
Christmas under a real tree
Toys in the attic
Jack Donahue Read poem →
clear autumnal sky
glowing sliver-crescent moon
Venus shines beside
Kent Mcquillen Read poem →
From ice skimmed waters
Mists rise, fusing earth with sky
Under splintered moon
Mary Crane Fahey Read poem →
smoking in the rain
up on the old Ford tractor...
hating the thunder
Michael Flanagan Read poem →
Dead trees darkened skies
Winter silhouettes invert
Sparklers in July
Nicholas Campbell Read poem →
three days, two spring snows:
jays and crows put pride aside
at the bird feeder
Joseph Hutchison Read poem →
random shapes of clouds
imaginative sky art
- masterpieces, all
Roberta Beach Jacobson Read poem →
A white flag of foam
Waves far into the distance
Yielding sun to sea
Alisdair Hodgson Read poem →
Trees are whispering
a song of pure solitude
on a winter day.
Mariangela Canzi Read poem →
With easel and paints
the sun paints a sky picture
a new born rainbow.
Duane Anderson Read poem →
The odd crooked tree
In society's forest
Is the living soul
Nicholas Lopez Read poem →
steady rise and fall
ocean seems to be breathing
as if it's alive
Bill Melton Read poem →
damp-blackened branches
flooded woods brimming with drink
death rot sharp, blooming
Jennifer Montgomery Read poem →
Snow on a full moon;
The bare branches click lightly
And then all is still.
Ian Sims Read poem →
Traveling I look-
up! Leaves swaying, wind blowing,
Upon my red cheeks!
Ashley Jones Read poem →
stack-stone flower box
summer's lease drifting away -
first crisp yellow leaf
William Manion Read poem →
sunshine beaten grass
longsweating mass of labor
softly river run
Che Pieper Read poem →
fallen maple leaf
cradled in her tiny hand
autumn lullaby
Patricia Pella Read poem →
As the mountain snow
shrouds the meadow, God whispers,
be still and listen.
Chris Cross Read poem →