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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.


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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© 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,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member Wheel Of Life - Hiku 17
Written: June 08, 2025 for contest by Brian Strand

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
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,

Premium Member recycle hiku



                  birth -life -death ^

   ...

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Categories: how i feel,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member sandstone
   weather     e
                ...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, death, gothic, imagery,

Belladonna Blue
Belladonna blue.
Scenes in a mystery, do.
Hope, need ye accrue?

Indeed! Heart, why bleed?
Lead? Others or ye? Be! Sea;
Four seasons; change? Strange...

Cold core, darkest door?
Ancient lore, forgotten...

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Categories: birth,


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