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 3Matsuo 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 1Matsuo 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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culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
Hitler's SinsPalestine Sins
...
Israel is indeed
reincarnated good
Goodocide actions
...
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Categories:
abuse, bullying, death, hate,
Burning salty TearsOh 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 WarNo 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 '89A 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 IIThese 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 SEASONSIN 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 unreadcursive 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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death, identity, life, loss,
recycle hiku
birth -life -death ^
...
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Categories:
how i feel,
Home For Awhilesame sky as years pass
planets in sync as always
with or without me...
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Categories:
earth, life, universe,
Categories:
dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Belladonna BlueBelladonna 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,