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Trees & Forests Haiku Poems

Haiku rooted among trunks, branches, leaves, woodland paths, and shade.

519 published haiku
Birds whisper sweet songs
hidden voices in the bark
a choir brings day.
Lynette Esposito Read poem →
rare morning thunder
biblical sky pelts glass rain
all the leaves look sharp
Sherry Abaldo Read poem →
Hot pavement and tar,
The wind waving, knocking on
Bristling green birch trees.
C.m. Crockford Read poem →
autumn palette hues
nature's amber draped canvas
masterpiece of leaves
Patricia Rossi Read poem →
three golden trees sway
atop the steep river bank
haunting mute children
Lindsay Lake Read poem →
Morning on water
winds blow revelry through leaves
a heron splashes
Angell Caudill Read poem →
Four cows munching grass
Lightning bugs blinking in trees
Dusk ? a summer day
Angell Caudill Read poem →
the rustle of leaves
quicker than the moon can hide
more naked branches
Joann Grisetti Read poem →
Wake up, blue willow,
the day, coming through your boughs;
same as yesterday
Matthew Lovett Read poem →
wood smoke and cut grass,
moist turned earth and lavender,
spruce, pine, and water
Alan Katerinsky Read poem →
words from yesterday
like dead leaves on frozen ground
nutrients of hope
Susan Gentry Read poem →
Small, bitter cherries,
From the tree across the fence,
Sow my yard with weeds
Anna Mccluskey Read poem →
Threadbare branches mourn
vestments stolen by chill winds -
melancholy ghosts
Steve Herbert Read poem →
windfall cedar trunk
rolled smooth in rain forest moss
decays evergreen
Tyson West Read poem →
Wind drags across time
pulling at leaves and false teeth
I can barely smile
Bryan Verdi Read poem →
the tree's silver bark
shining in the moonlit dark
nighttime is talking
Anna Cates Read poem →
between two tall trees
a single fallen oak leaf --
color of sunset
Frank Graham Read poem →
morning summer breeze
a concentric draft ascends
white oak leaves tremble
Dennis Thompson Read poem →
pretty history?
we leaf through books to find it
the page is torn out
Janet Mccann Read poem →
in my apple tree
the blossoms getting closer -
new baby shower
Ana Drobot Read poem →
autumn butterflies
the warm golds and crisp crimsons
I mistook for leaves
Tracy Davidson Read poem →
cherry blossom trunk
our tremors pass through her grip
falling silk coats us
C. Z. Heyward Read poem →
The spring wind dances
Through the pines dislodging cones.
The earth glows and swells.
Cecil Geary Read poem →
Wolf on Highway 2
dissolves into the forest
like a bell, unrung
Marc Beaudin Read poem →
midnight illusion
leafy branches reach skyward
holding moon aloft
Nells Wasilewski Read poem →
Mighty redwood tree
canopies that reach for miles
humbled by their size
Sarah Lunsford Read poem →
Backlit by the moon
Stark skeleton of branches
Pierce the evening sky
Bill Melton Read poem →
Morning dew settles
silver on the last fall leaf?
soon death for rebirth.
Nicholas Finch Read poem →
Lichen covered tree
sides most stunted and deprived
lessons make us wise
Allison Cowzer Read poem →
Leopards hunt silent
the breeze carries leaves gone by
the Fox dies alone
Rachel Lewis Read poem →
snow fallen branches
sway in a cold breeze, feathers
ruffle in a nest
Nancy May Read poem →
Winter. Old fence felled
by wind rests against an elm
growing bright new moss
Susannah Rickards Read poem →
all yellow leaves flee
the cold birch limbs above me
stars sprout on her twigs
Tyson West Read poem →
a hollow pine stump
day of the dead sheltering
a skull shaped mushroom
Tyson West Read poem →
Chapel in the woods
Empty nests and peeling bark
Nobody to blame
Joseph J Kozma Read poem →
forest flames below
a beautiful tragic view
for those on the hill
Timothy Hicks Read poem →