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
Allen Ginsberg
Drinking my tea
Without sugar-
No difference.
The sparrow shits
upside down
--ah! my brain & eggs
Mayan head in a
Pacific driftwood bole
--Someday I'll live in N.Y.
Looking over my shoulder
my behind was covered
with cherry blossoms.
Winter Haiku
I didn't know the names
of the flowers--now
my garden is gone.
I slapped the mosquito
and missed.
What made me do that?
Reading haiku
I am unhappy,
longing for the Nameless.
A frog floating...Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Staying at an inn
where prostitutes are also sleeping--
bush clover and the moon....Read more of this...
by
Jack Kerouac
The taste
of rain
—Why kneel?...Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Coolness of the melons
flecked with mud
in the morning dew....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Straw sandal half sunk
in an old pond
in the sleety snow....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
The old man
cutting barley--
bent like a sickle....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Evening wind:
water laps
the heron's legs....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Awake at night--
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Spring rain
leaking through the roof
dripping from the wasps' nest....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Coolness--
the sound of the bell
as it leaves the bell....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Harvest moon--
called at his house,
he was digging potatoes....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
From time to time
The clouds give rest
To the moon-beholders....Read more of this...
by
Ezra Pound
O fan of white silk,
clear as frost on the grass-blade,
You also are laid aside....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
Matsuo Basho
Blowing stones
along the road on Mount Asama,
the autumn wind....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
What fish feel,
birds feel, I don't know--
the year ending....Read more of this...
by
Kobayashi Issa
Visiting the graves,
the old dog
leads the way....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
Winter solitude--
in a world of one color
the sound of wind....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Buying leeks
and walking home
under the bare trees....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
A monk sips morning tea,
it's quiet,
the chrysanthemum's flowering....Read more of this...
by
James A Emanuel
Lid's on, steam's risin':
collard greens, Lord, bubblin' JAZZ!
That's appetizin'....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
A bee
staggers out
of the peony....Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again. ...Read more of this...
by
Matsuo Basho
At a hermitage:
A cool fall night--
getting dinner, we peeled
eggplants, cucumbers....Read more of this...
by
Yosa Buson
Calligraphy of geese
against the sky--
the moon seals it....Read more of this...
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