Death Haiku Poems

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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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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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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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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Written: June 08, 2025 for contest by Brian Strand

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

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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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                  birth -life -death ^

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

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   weather     e
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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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b u r y me 
                 amongst  
corpse...

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blitzed blackened skies 
hail of bullets ricochet ~
crimson fills trenches 

screams of the fallen
reverberate through scorched earth ~  
laid waste to ruin 

dog tags...

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embraced by a ghost
scent of hair I recognize
like time never passed...

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On cruel dust,
seen as departed —
lovelorn ghost
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