Best Haikus Poems
This garden city
Concrete skyscrapers loom;
Greenery punctuate
Tree-lined avenues
Bourgainvillea clusters;
Traffic jam companions
Waltzing slowly
Overhead bridge;
Ant-people below
Old neighbourhood
Heartland community;
Ageing populace
Feeble old lady
Speeds on wheels;
Electric commotion
Playground
For small kids and big;
Noisy charades
Fitness park
For young and old;
Fighting spirit
City side walk cafe
Crowded after hours;
Beery happy hours
Noticeable absence
Dry spell ending;
Sudden torrential rain
Umbrellas raised,
Parasols hoisted;
Too late this drenching
Side walk cobbler
New lease for old shoes;
Assorted wears
Hyper art queue
Long-winded delay;
Fussy customer
Bank ATM await
Ready to dispense;
Urgent pocket money
Office podium
By shopping mall;
Buzz of human traffic
Downtown hype
Temptations galore;
Mostly unnecessary
Leon Enriquez
23 Apr 2014
Singapore
Rising Rituals
ravishing rawness
ravenous raunchy relief
riveting repeats
Special Someone
sultry seductions
sinful sensations surface
seeking saucy stars
Taming Taboo
teasing temptations
tremendous titillations
tempting the tyrant
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July.19.2020
Let the Pens Flow ~Alliteration Poetry
Sponsored by~ Jenish Somadas
trees with sprouting limbs
bathed by spring's April showers
don
their lacy green robes
trees with dense full limbs
swayed by warm summer breezes
spread
their green velvet capes
trees with brilliant limbs
whirled by the cool autumn winds
shed
their burnished gold gowns
trees with cold bare limbs
frozen by winter blizzards
drape
their white fluffy scarves
In the shifting air
the sweet scent of candy corn
candle wax burning
All doors are open
an ancient mystery lives
I bask in its glow
November Intrigue--Five Haikus
Moss breathes dampness, near
shifting blankets of old leaves.
Beds of lichen thrive.
Both pure and pungent,
the air is soul-enhancing,
gifting faint wood smoke.
On the forest floor,
Princess Pine grows sweetly
in pristine patches.
Old stone foundations
and a gurgling waterfall
capture heavy mist.
Dark reeds cross the marsh
to a long strand of young spruce,
vivid and spritely.
A morning spell
freshly proposed
comes quietly in
yesterday's ambient air
pushes out of the screen
archaic puffs of stale
what meanders out
is the remnants of me
before the crisis
caught between
hope and despair
I take to daydreaming
alone
again
in my bed
Jan 12, 2022
Sponsor Damned I-Be
Contest Name HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO
There were moments when / I thought I'd never again / see myself once more
Trillions of eyes / unable to comprehend / what just two eyes can
Manipulate man / Steal away from his essence / then who will he be?
CHAINS:FIVE HAiKUS
Cold government chains
Deciding who I can see
Worse what I can do
So silvery bright
On my wrist very heavy
Bird of freedom gone
Chains built all on lies
Humanity believes all
Fear is its cold call
America is gone
Believes the media song
Soul moonlight no more
From a blue state flee
My call to Freedom lovers
The doors are closing
April 19, 2020
4:15am PST
" Give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry
Where is mystery
On how Moses makes his tea?
We know, Hebrews it.
It won’t surprise me
If a cartoonist’s found dead
And clues are sketchy.
I catch it the least
That gossamer lovely beast,
Love still if I mist.
My blood report O
When showed it was type-A blood,
Oh, it was Typo.
I stayed up all night
To trace on Sun’s nightlong flight,
Then it dawned with light.
Like king’s royal crown,
The book: Gravity-less Ground
Was hard to put down.
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Haiku |01.03.2024| humour
The war in Iran:
Does Trump have a plan? Well, no.
Short attention span!
The Strait of Hormuz
is just no place for a cruise.
The POTUS? He'll snooze.
Department of War?
No one seems to know what for.
Really? Please, no more!
1. A gnat under blue
days will next spin on apples
Look! More frogs arrived
2. The terrible tree
Covers my house. That summer
I counted wagons
3. The frog above red
Songs will soon remember you
Winter dreams with ducks
Invisible chap
Bearded egomaniac
Probably not real
Omniscient guy
Yet he lets bad things happen
How can he exist?
Beauty of nature
Why condense it down to God?
Isn’t life enough?
Funny haikus for kids
croaking sounds calling
as you jump into puddles
frogs leap on your feet....
little sparrows chirp
fly together as you tease
droppings on your head....
giant elephant
trumpets and shakes its big ears
roller coaster ride....
giraffe eats high leaves
wish they soon reach the stomach
stuck in the long neck....
cartoons the whole day
animals play in jungle
as you watch tv.....
Written Oct 30th, 2015
For contest " Funny haikus for kids"
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