Famous Haiku Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Haiku poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous haiku poems. These examples illustrate what a famous haiku poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Yosa Buson
Ploughing the land--
not even a bird singing
in the mountain's shadow....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
How admirable!
to see lightning and not think
life is fleeting....Read more of this...
by
Jack Kerouac
Birds singing
in the dark
—Rainy dawn....Read more of this...
by
Kobayashi Issa
New Year's Day--
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
The willow leaves fallen,
the spring gone dry,
rocks here and there....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Buying leeks
and walking home
under the bare trees....Read more of this...
by
Richard Brautigan
With his hat on
he's about five inches taller
than a taxicab....Read more of this...
by
Kobayashi Issa
Seen
through a telescope:
ten cents worth of fog....Read more of this...
by
Jack Kerouac
The low yellow
moon above the
Quiet lamplit house...Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Heat waves shimmering
one or two inches
above the dead grass....Read more of this...
by
Donald Hall
In a week or ten days
the snow and ice
will melt from Cemetery Road.
I'm coming! Don't move!
Once again it is April.
Today is the day
we would have been married
twenty-six years.
I finished with April
halfway through March.
You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that could happen.
Then they stay dead.
Will Hall ever write
lines that do anything
but whine and complain?
In April the blue
mountain revises
from white...Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Listening to the moon,
gazing at the croaking of frogs
in a field of ripe rice....Read more of this...
by
Kobayashi Issa
Under the image of Buddha
all these spring flowers
seem a little tiresome....Read more of this...
by
Kobayashi Issa
In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
A snowy morning--
by myself,
chewing on dried salmon....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Spring rain
leaking through the roof
dripping from the wasps' nest....Read more of this...
by
Kobayashi Issa
Asked how old he was,
the boy in the new kimono
stretched out all five fingers....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
open....Read more of this...
by
Kobayashi Issa
Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Before the white chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate
a moment....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
A bee
staggers out
of the peony....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
He's on the porch,
to escape the wife and kids--
how hot it is!...Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Midfield,
attached to nothing,
the skylark singing....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Dawn--
fish the cormorants haven't caught
swimming in the shallows....Read more of this...
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