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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.


Premium Member moth
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Categories: 4th grade, analogy, death,



Real Estate
small graves -
more horror packed 
per acre on holy land
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Categories: children, death, grave, war,

Pass Away - Haiku - Tanka

The dead that now know
God's move in ~predestined~ wind
Sift through the free grass.

You must be longer
in there than I am this staid.
Above you, to leave
Where...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: haiku, dark, death, god, grave,

Haiku -A modern day holocaust:11
Palestine

anticipating
life dying trying to save
death from possessing...

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© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 9th grade, allegory, anger,

Premium Member Danger in the Jungle
the jungle is dark
     the panther colored in black
          anxious to attack
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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africa, animal, anxiety, dark,



Haiku - A modern day holocaust:9
Oh Palestine!
your resilient people 
hungry in rags  still steadfast
steady  prayers kept
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© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 10th grade, chanukah, death,

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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© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
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 sin
Genocide actions
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© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
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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© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
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,


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