Short Haibun Poems

Short Haibun Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short Haibun poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search the short Haibun poetry form by poem length and keyword.


Rice Terraces

Mu Cang Chai's rice terraces in Northern Vietnam.

a stunning beauty,
a breathtaking masterpiece
so nice rice terraces


Foggy Night

foggy night
a cobweb catches
the glow of fluorescents


haiku part of haibun


Published:  Contemporary Haibun Online
Form: Haiku

Rich

I found it very deep, very nice, and so very interesting!

"you are not a rich
until you have something/s
money can not buy"
men

Childlike Emotions

Cry over spilled milk
Laugh and dance the next moment
Childlike emotions observed


Like a Child Poetry ‘contest
Jun 28, 2022

Happy Pronouns

H has E; S has H and E; Y has O and U; W has E; T has H, E and Y.

the happy pronouns
who always stick together -
only I'm alone


Cryptomeria

Ancient tree, girth 7.04 m & height 35 m, over 1000 years old!

one thousand years old
very old  tree in Japan
Cryptomeria

My Way

After enormous loss, I’m sure most of us have been here...


you were never there
when I worked my way through it
I made it without.
© Neil Johns  Create an image from this poem.

Broke knee, ankle

Blindes is folded into remindness, cause.. .. Do we not live in the world we know nothing abt? We are blinders Indeed Blinders, are timeless. We are they. And they are we.

A Stone On the Bed of a River

Sometimes I feel like a stone on the bed of a fast-flowing mountain river: namelessness, immobility, contemplation;

nor past nor future
instantaneous rapid 
stream of illusions

Bedtime Poem

Angel dances by the pond
Like fairies all night long
Music playing
All voice chanting
Moonlight shinning as they go along
Singing the night away 
Sending good dreams all night long.

Gardens Above Ground

Balconies 
are decorated
with daisies.

The perfumed 
geraniums
hang like plants.

Beautiful
are the gardens
above ground. 

They are seen
in New Orleans,
not elsewhere.

.

Almanac

The word almanac is originally Arabic word means literally weather, astronomical data, and (sun, moon, and many stars) observations.

almanac or al-manakh
the weather data
Arabic origin word

Premium Member A Million Memories

An aunt so loving and true. An aunt that never made me blue. An aunt I miss more than I knew.

 

An aunt so loving

Loving memories of you

One in a million
 

Date Written: 6/25/2020

Premium Member Not Quite Picture Perfect

A stitch in time saves nine, lest, out of step lose pep, 'ere gains back mislaid track; cruise control, lose neutral.

practice makes perfect as perfect is relative subject is practice
© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member In My Sketchbook

waka,tanka,yugen
elegant poem-songs to pen

haiga,wenren,haiku
multi-talents to read or view

renga,haikai,haibun
light or long,poetry-prose can be fun

senryu,kigo kireji
the cutting word..is the key
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Adversity Begone a Haibun

Words, words, how do you feel?My emotions cascade in a stream.The crisis confronts me head on.Enough is enough, let chance,let faith set sail.

being,not living
begone ,sense of otherness-
in His  hands, I am

Commercials

A shape of the void is providing innumerable occupations for characters on the stage to emote through clearest and wet lightning 

                        the distortion of audience perspective sustains briefly

Exactly Same

"Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets." Matthew 7:12.

what you did for her
be ready to get it now
you so have had it

Premium Member wishing for snow

wishing for snow
Light grayness of the sky brings a needed coolness
Sprinkle of snow gives me a preview of November.
I yearn for more, loving the frostiness of December.

november gray sky
a startling frostiness

Premium Member Said Aloud

From at to eye imagination alights and explodes.In another's minds eye..matures,excites,ignites..impregnates,conceives..birthes a new creative impulse.

the melodic effect
this beauty of sound..
stays upon the ear

Premium Member A Recitative Haibun

From at to eye imagination alights and explodes.In another's minds eye..matures,excites,ignites..impregnates,conceives..birthes a new creative impulse.

The melodic effect
this beauty of sound..
stays upon the ear

Premium Member Winter Winds








                    evening touches souls 
                    though winds may be far colder
                    birds get much closer

         
                             12-20-2020



Premium Member What Is The Word?

What Is The Word?

     This is our lives: moment to moment; thought to thought, image to image; we build reality from our dreams.

     The truth eludes us;
     Nothing defines the moment
     We are here, then not.

Premium Member Cumulus

Cumulus clouds slide stealthily across the horizon;
a lone raven sits cawing.  Yellow leaves falling signal the end of Summer's embrace as a chill breeze wafts by.

cumulus
gathering on horizon
raven warning



Oldest Toy

The world's oldest surviving toy, dating back to the Chalcolithic Period, approximately 7500 years old, is exhibited at the Mardin Museum in Turkey.


the world oldest toy
about seven thousands years
car made of good wood
old

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