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Life Haiku Poems

These Life Haiku poems are examples of Haiku poems about Life. These are the best examples of Haiku Life 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,

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Winter 2
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about winter, cold, rain, rains, frost, frosts, snow, snowflakes, wind, children, childhood, hail, hail stones, winter life. 

Mushroom-gathering,
rushing to...

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Categories: childhood, children, life, rain,

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Autumn 1
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, sea, autumn wind, harvest moon, dark, darkness, dawn, day, life.

First of autumn:
the sea and the rice...

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Categories: autumn, dark, day, life,

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Summer 2
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, trees, firefly, fireflies, cuckoos, rice fields, rice paddies, bush-clover, Iris, Irises, temple, temples, Japanese culture, light, daylight,...

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Categories: boat, culture, light, summer,



Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haku about Summer 1
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about summer, life, sun, sunshine, sunlight, melons, willows, rain, rivers, hats, shade, sad, sadness.

Such coolness
when shouldered:
the summer’s first melon.
—Matsuo...

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Categories: horse, life, river, sad,

Hiku: easy life
life's so E
                 A
     ...

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Categories: fun, games, life, love,

Premium Member Hungry Bear
bear wading in the stream
     bear grabs a jumping salmon          
 ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, fish, fishing, food,

flower of life : haiku
Sponsor : JCB Brul
submission date : 3/7/25

   geometric pure
God design for sure, no door ~
all over universe


      ...

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Categories: beautiful, change, creation, earth,

Premium Member WISDOM
WISDOM

It's not just to know,
it's about sowing her seeds,
and reaping her fruits:-...

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Categories: allegory,

Premium Member FRESH FRUITS NEEDED
FRESH FRUIT NEEDED

In peace’s awareness,
let us sow new fertile seeds;
reaping fruits thereof:-
...

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Categories: allegory, fruit, inspirational, life,

Premium Member Aging Shadows
early evening walk
two shadows walking ahead
melting into one...

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Categories: age, health, life,

Premium Member Sink or Swim
Drowning in sorrow
because you are leaving me.
I jumped in too soon.

As I flail about,
will you toss me a life ring,
or a concrete block?

Both are solutions
to...

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Categories: lost love, water,

Premium Member collaterally speaking
collaterally speaking...

war is like plowing...
don't like peace...hell!...bomb-plow it:
life...collateral......

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Categories: allegory, life, peace, political,

swarovski sunsets hiku
       lilac  h u  s   h   of  love ~

   ...

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Categories: life, light, love, metaphor,


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