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Memory Haibun Poems

These Memory Haibun poems are examples of Haibun poems about Memory. These are the best examples of Haibun Memory poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Memories of a Childhood Home
My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the...

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Categories: home, house, memory,



Premium Member Anna Liisa
Anna Liisa was Great-grandmother's name. She emigrated from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century. 
I have only one memory of Anna Liisa from...

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Categories: family,

Memories and Old Age

I was sitting around the fire pit the other night telling some exaggerated tale about something or another when I completely lost my train of...

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Categories: poetry,

Premium Member Precious Moments Poetry Contest-Echoes
Most of my precious childhood memories center around my mother. She’s the reason why I’m alive, why I smile, and why I cry. The memory...

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Categories: memory, mother, mother daughter,

Premium Member The George Inn
January years ago, confused far away I was with the cold.
Landed in Bristol on a snowy  airport, as snowed were the meadows and frosted...

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Categories: adventure, blessing, emotions, england,



Premium Member ON THE CUSP OF BECOMING


Every so often, my mind wanders back to the summer of my youth, where a specific memory awaits. 

Having completed my first year at University,...

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Categories: age, brother, future, growing

Premium Member I'll Be Along Shortly
Shadows are constant like a friend, but unlike a natural friend, shadows do not bear human emotions, or traits, which offers clarity and understanding. That...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beautiful, christian, faith, family,

Stars Of Clarity
I still reminisce when it was raining incessantly at 3:55 a.m. in the nascent ticks of time on a wistful wednesday. My skin felt the...

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Categories: blessing, dream, emotions, meaningful,

Premium Member Raindrop Musings
I sit at my desk, my mind rambling.  I pause, watching the rain as it creates a beat upon the sidewalk. People pass as...

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Categories: memory, rain,

Premium Member Featherless Angels
A long-time memory that hugs my heart, so many years ago. When I was nearing ten years old, I was playing in the snow. It...

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Categories: snow,

Premium Member Where Cardinals Fly
We crept down a meandering country road, gravel crackling underneath our tires. The countryside stretched before us like a great quilt of golden, brown, and...

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Categories: memory,

Premium Member This Old House
The old house, built in 1895, was the best of weathered antiques having hugged North Rogers Street from days of horses to days of horse-powered...

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Categories: home, memory,

Premium Member Conscious Uncoupling
Requiem for Henry and Sylvia

The papers arrived today. I gaze out the window of our posh villa and witness yet another spectacular Tuscan sunset. To...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: divorce, memory,

Premium Member Memories and Ghosts
In the two days since my arrival, Granddad and I exchanged only a few predictable, cursory words.

“You sleep okay?” Granddad asked.

Although his silent house had...

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Categories: family, grandfather, memory, silence,

Premium Member Intangible Ingredients
When Mother and I cooked in her kitchen, we often referred to Granny’s recipe cards. Frequently, though, the cards just listed the ingredients without exact...

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Categories: meaningful, memory, mother, mother


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