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Death Haiku Poems

These Death Haiku poems are examples of Haiku poems about Death. These are the best examples of Haiku Death poems written by international poets.

Quiet Echoes

A quiet handshake—
now just dust on the breeze falls,
names fade with the dusk....

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Categories: death, death of a

A modern day holocaust:7

Oh Palestine!
your blessed secret smile 
purge my mind  with good daily 
you are my prayers
...

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Categories: 8th grade, allusion, animal,

Matsuo Basho: English translations 3

Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about birds, flowers, candles, life, death.

Naptime!
But my drowsiness is nixed
by busybody warblers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch

Carolers:
the sparrows...

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Categories: bird, culture, death, flower,

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1

Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon,...

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Categories: culture, death, loneliness, lonely,

Hitler's Sins

Palestine Sins 
...
Israel is indeed
reincarnated  good
Goodocide actions
...

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Categories: abuse, bullying, death, hate,

Burning salty Tears

Oh Almighty God
end this  genocide  on Gaza 
move demons away

Al Juman  style haiku © 1/12/2025




hate is an internal cry
burning salt drips of...

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Categories: 7th grade, animal, bullying,

No More War

No More War

Marching boots echo
no birds sing in the  
shattered valleys.

Children’s toys buried
beneath the smoking ruins
where  are they ?

Flags wave in triumph,
but mothers...

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Categories: anger, death, fire, soldier,

A Night of '89

A Night of '89

Footsteps at midnight
the knock no one dared answer.
Dogs howled in silence.

Charred Bodies on the road,
eyes still open to the sky.
The crows never...

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Categories: anger, cry, death, fear,

Issa Translations II

These are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.

Autumn wind ...
She always wanted to pluck
the reddest roses
?Kobayashi Issa translation by...

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Categories: autumn, rose, spring, stars,

IN LIFE'S GODLY SEASONS

IN LIFE’S GODLY SEASONS  

Death need not be feared;
It’s in the nature of life:
Seasons come and go:-

Seek a saintly life,
From your spring to your...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, death, inspiration,

Wheel Of Life - Hiku 17

Written: June 08, 2025 for contest by Brian Strand

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Categories: birth, death, life,

In the end, we’re just stories left unread

cursive letters pale
fade into weathered parchment—
they were stories once....

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Categories: death, life, loss, memory,

the unnamed

ghostly gray petals—
a shadow crossing the grass
I stepped on a name





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A minimalist reflection on mourning and the erosion of identity, set in the asphodel fields...

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Categories: death, identity, life, loss,

recycle hiku




                  birth -life -death ^

   ...

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Categories: how i feel,

Home For Awhile

same sky as years pass
planets in sync as always
with or without me...

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Categories: earth, life, universe,