Best Haiku Nature Poems
wind shifts
a leaf pauses
midair
Birds fly formation
towards pink spun sugar clouds
Into tomorrow.
birth of a haiku
wind daubs earth's tent with spent leaves
first frost's colored ink
Brian Johnston
October 19, 2015
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vow autumns effervescence ~
conscious elements
seven sisters meet
prattle trivial stories
~jungle babblers song
March 15 2022
For the contest 'Bird haiku' by Tania kitchin
Used how many syllables.com
Note: Jungle babblers are called as seven sister birds...
Summer willow tree
Tree tears dropping on the soil
Birds quenching their thirst
daybreak calls off moon's whitewash
in the wee of this morn I startled up from what quite seemed like a crash landing from midair plunge of a fledgling's first flight—thanks to my false 'alarmers'; the plantain eaters, I take them for angry doves, and yet, the laughing doves do coo me down in these dawns. Yeah... few months ago I stood behind my window bars, peering on as usual to catch a view or Olympic squirrels hopping from branches to clumps when I saw this floundered bird, soaring downwards, dipped through and crashing into razor leave and needle sharp branch nodes and some weather eroded bamboo sticks—the first time I might have witnessed a fallen angel, it was like a burning out star, this time shooting upside down.
emergency
circling above leaf falls
hawks siren
the day getting fast heat up as noon approaches, there's a whole of this host of hawks, rounding up the clumper and close by rooftops with squeaks and squeaks upon squeaks; what I thought at first was a catch that got dropped off grasp has become the target for rescue—like a fledging hanging frail and exhausted, trapped. But, the mating season of the African Harrier Hawk is just on, so could it be a male who got attacked by another male who tries to protect its territory as these hawks are found to be monogamous? I still focus on this rare scene in the air by the arboreal.
saccade
distorts in the dry wind
dragonfly drifts
eventide's in a frenzy and row, black and white mannikins chirr and ambience suppressed as squirrels chirp, join the coucal's moans and a choral flock of yellow warblers that doesn't wobble in a field of bromes—no ventriloquist's effects. Haven flown in wavy slides up and down, skimming near to claw and drag the victim out of the snare-like nest unsuccessfully, some hawks perch to catch a breath between the laughter of doves, the plantain eaters, claiming territory on the mango tree too, crackle and chase the hawks one by one, so I wondered if the hubbub had been intended for a jeer against the predators.
jungle marketplace
each seller and buyer bears
his woven basket
Winter moonlight night
Silver queen showing her face
Love birds here and there
dandelion seed
carried away-
summer heat
naked tree shiver
wind rattle shameful you sway
cold breeze blush my face
A spadefoot toad
Idles on a pond border
A fall rain peppers
Swiftly and bravely,
The Hare scatters from its home,
a glimpse of nature.
polished stones and waves
on the banks of a green stream -
a hundred birds sing
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February 26, 2018
Poetry/Haiku/nature
Copyright Protected, ID 18-9985-76-01
All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym.
Submitted to the contest, Haiku
sponsor, Deborah Beachboard
Honorable Mention
too many
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belly ache and tongue lickin's ~
every bite sickens
grasping
a leafless twig
the last cicada