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Longing Haiku Poems

These Longing Haiku poems are examples of Haiku poems about Longing. These are the best examples of Haiku Longing poems written by international poets.

sweet luminescence

sweet luminescence
prevails under moonlight
as do thoughts of you



AP: 2nd place 2025

Categories: light, longing, memory, moon,

Email Letter Joy

Your letters bring joy
All the colors of kindness
Kindle Dawn's soft flame

Categories: friendship love,

A Second Portion of What's Not There

A heart's silent scream,  
Yearning for the ghost of hope,  
Each dawn brings despair.  

Shadows weave around,  
Promises of what could

Categories: loneliness, longing, lust,

magnolia

magnolia
sunsets and love
memories of june

Categories: appreciation, flower, june, longing,

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,

Categories: culture, death, loneliness, lonely,

pillow

pillow next to me
in the gleam of sunrise
without a wrinkle


AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Categories: lonely, longing, morning,

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

Categories: lost love, water,

Snugs and Sparkles

Written: June 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Anthony Biaanco
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lanterns twinkle bright
soft laughter snugs

Categories: appreciation, longing,

every sky

every sky casting
its random share of showers ~
rainbows to be chased



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Categories: hope, longing, rain, rainbow,

Suffocating Act of Living


Breath becomes a fight,
World's weight presses on the chest,
Longing to break free.

©bfa051725

Categories: life,

Velvet Whispers

         night drapes 
       like v e l v e t,

Categories: deep, imagery, longing, meaningful,

Love

Love

Love and friendship is,
one soul within two bodies,
hearts that beat as one.

By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison

Categories: haiku, friend, friendship, longing, love,

Long days

Best are the long days
Where time is in short supply
And nothing was gained

Categories: longing, time,

Cold

The cold is brassic
snow lying about in piles
yearning for summer

Categories: longing, snow,

Windy Cold Day

a windy cold day
so longing for summer breeze 
a waft blow gently

Categories: weather,