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River Haiku Poems

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

Cassiopeia

Just like her favorite character Alice, she wears a light blue dress and a pinafore, she pairs it up with white tights and black Mary...

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Categories: haiku, fantasy, science fiction,

Lights on the river IV

Red hourglasses
drawn thin and narrow waisted
sparkling motes fall...

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Categories: light, red, river, water,

WATERED LIFE

Life's no banked river...
Life's roving waves frothing shores...
Life's oceanic......

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Categories: allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,

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 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,

Matsuo Basho English Translations: Spring 1

Matsuo Basho Haiku: English Translations of haiku about seasons, spring, rain, moon, flowers, blossoms, wind, river, etc.

Blame the rainy season
for my absence,
old friend Moon.
—Matsuo Basho,...

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Categories: flower, moon, rain, river,

Possum

babies on her back
     the possum crossed the river
          a log was...

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Categories: animal, baby, mother, river,

Hungry Bear

bear wading in the stream
     bear grabs a jumping salmon          
 ...

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Categories: animal, fish, fishing, food,

haiku--drought


severe summer drought
river* water level low
treasure trove revealed

*Mississippi
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Categories: river,

hiku 32

winding downward

the winter snow

now a raging river
...

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Categories: nature, river, snow, water,

sakura petals

many farewells-
people look sakura p
                    ...

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Categories: goodbye, loneliness,

rivers

  river         f
             ...

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Categories: earth, imagery, nature, poetess,

LIFE'S FLOW

Rivers always flow…
Let life be like a river…
Wet in flowing grace…


...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, encouraging, inspirational,

Spring Hiku 12


                  Spring Hiku 12


  wrens warble on...

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Categories: appreciation, bird, river, sea,

Spring Hiku 9


      Spring Hiku 9

 spring sun sets down
	
           sleepy wrens...

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Categories: appreciation, bird, dream, river,