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Famous Short Haiku Poems. Short Haiku Poetry by Famous Poets

Famous Short Haiku Poems. Short Haiku Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Haiku short poems

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by Jack Kerouac

Haiku

 The taste
 of rain
—Why kneel?


by Jack Kerouac

Haiku

 Birds singing
 in the dark
—Rainy dawn.


by Jack Kerouac

Haiku

 The low yellow
 moon above the
Quiet lamplit house


by Richard Brautigan

Haiku Ambulance

 A piece of green pepper
fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?


by Adrian Green

Luna Lake Haiku

 New moon on the lake.
Your voice and the nightingale 
serenade springtime. 
Full moon on the lake. 
Your voice and the waterbirds 
celebrate summer. 
Old moon on the lake. 
Owls hunting autumnal food -
your voice still singing.


by Matsuo Basho

Four Haiku

 Spring:
A hill without a name
Veiled in morning mist.

The beginning of autumn:
Sea and emerald paddy
Both the same green.

The winds of autumn
Blow: yet still green
The chestnut husks.

A flash of lightning:
Into the gloom
Goes the heron's cry.


by Paul Eluard

Five Haiku

 The wind 
Undecided 
Rolls a cigarette of air 

The mute girl talks: 
It is art's imperfection. 
This impenetrable speech. 

The motor car is truly launched: 
Four martyrs' heads 
Roll under the wheels. 

Ah! a thousand flames, a fire, 
The light, a shadow! 
The sun is following me. 

A feather gives to a hat 
A touch of lightness: 
The chimney smokes.