Best Haikai Poems

daylight fading
nineseventeen pm
hedgehogs feeding

light holds
nineseventeen pm
horizon glows

a blackbird sings
nineseventeen pm
good night

houses lighting up
nineseventeen pm
days still lengthening

croaking frogs a splash
nineseventeen pm
Basho comes to mind

evening beckons bats
nineseventeen pm
the gardeners' friends

sat by the pond
nineseventeen pm
mosquitoes feasting

hot and humid
nineseventeen pm
sleeping naked

the garden buzzing
nineseventeen pm
june bugs make a show
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nineseventeenPM Poetry...

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haikia
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another night
torrential rain fills my butt
summer drought respite
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a blackbird bathing
another overcast day
like Trump dense widespread
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midges mosquitoes
larvae live food for the carp
land fauna struggles
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dogwood tree in bloom
not gone unnoticed plus bees
late summer berries
-
no butterflies
two days since then only one
summertime failures
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most life can adapt
overtime wet nights remiss
wet...

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haikai
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 Summertime Theme

summertime sunshine
finds a  gap in the curtain
lights up my true love

the summer sun
burns respite clouds shadows
much needed rain

we all enjoy fun
summer holidays no rain
we all pay the price

hosepipe ban will come
flora fauna begging drinks
worms now out of reach

black headed gulls
tap dancing mimicking...

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calm days oceans fit
dress coastlines in white lace
treacherous... the storm

on the wind it glides
oceans of the south surveyed
albatrosses feed

penguins flighty birds
cross ice bellies down... feet push
water... flight masters

aquatic parrots
puffins come to land to breed
Icelanders eat them

oceans deep smokers
new life evolves... dies when stubbed
potential islands

iguanas
some vegetarians
dive...

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look... early snowdrops
buried twice this springtime
winter stealing time

proud dandelions
confounds the seasons... blooming
twelve o'clock midday

winters snow in spring
protection from jack the frost
confused... yes i am...

puffed up birds feathers
trapping in their body heat
ducks... swans... ice skating

blizzard... white out
pollution... total wipe out
nature... we'll not know

sunshine... till it dies
nature......

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dawn a flash of light
summer sun escaped the clouds
a blink in time

sparrows twittering
fledgelings begging to be fed
a watchful cat

warm westerly breeze
consolation for no sun
the warmth factor

summertime blinked
one-day last year a Monday
July the tenth

suntanned my body
fake news in a bottle
binned sunglasses

its summer time
no nature is lying
hush...

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the cinnabar moth
a summer diurnal one
check out the ragwort

peppermint stands
mint moths' abundant tiny
summer potatoes

a rambling rose
buds showing waiting to burst
a flowerfly drones

bees not many
some burrowers one or two
campion self-seeds

tis the morrow morn
west is the forecasted wind
southwest for the swifts...

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Come
what do you
see
         take
one breath
               then
tell 
me
         or
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late spring arthropods
not as things should be
many absentees
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swallows still absent
butterflies the odd one
today a wood brown
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azure springtime sky
should be full of life... empty
no i'm going blind
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house sparrows chirping
heard but cannot be seen
pond water warming
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the common garden
spider A diadematus absent
could be it is late
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climate change... killing
spring bees...  spiders  many flies
early nesters starve

once joy the seasons...
the charm of springs overture...
winter defies it...

today... house  sparrows
 seen nesting... nature wishes...
hopeful they succeed...

grass... verdant... growing...
hedgerows holding back... afraid...
full spring biding time

jet stream...rioting
lost its way... meandering
disturbing nature

the hill piste lingered
children...

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wild Australia
hark... sounds of didgeridoos
mobs of kangaroo

Australian folk...
Aboriginals suffer
arpartied still reigns...

Australian folk...
at one with nature... what's left
arpartied still reigns...

vistas of nature
o that monolith could talk
Australian woes

deforestation
all life suffers pollution
koala's left dead

crocodiles... wildlife
Australia's indigenous
extinctions for real

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cows... milked by first light
pasture... some moments respite
fresh mushrooms... breakfast

calf's... lambs... foals... goats kids
all milk dependent... from mom's
grateful the kittens

nature providing
sustenance nurturing life
no nurture... no milk
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haikai

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touched by a zephyr
evoked memories your breath
warm summer days
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finding the balance
on a hot sunshiny day
dappled shadows
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my garden bench
i share with untidy guests
bird droppings sun baked
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summer storm threatens
yet not a cloud in the sky
wise are the insects
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a distant rumble
the summer storm passed us by
wildlife exploded
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ere the...

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poetry of the people...

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haikai
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the buddleia
a diurnal kingdom...
butterfly courts

a coronation
the orb brightest of orange...
painted lady crowned

bees flowerflies wasps
most grateful to their host...
the gardener

nocturnal bats moths
hedgehogs if lucky a fox...
a hidden frog croaks

dusk a blackbird claims
no doubt a choral master...
may bugs abundant

the Scots pine maypole
cockchafer fly... encircle...
black headed gulls dine

sun...

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