/r/haiku
Haiku
The Art of Haiku.
Haiku are 17 syllables and traditionally structured 5 - 7 - 5
Rules
The haiku you want to post must be in the title of your post. One haiku per post. Use
/separator for lines.Refrain from using harsh and unnecessarily foul language when making a haiku. Profanity is auto removed.
If you're posting someone else's haiku, please credit the original poet in the comments
No self-promotion, political themes, or religious themes.
X-rated haikus belong on /r/XRatedHaiku, we prefer keeping /r/haiku SFW.
Removal of posts is entirely at the discretion of moderators
Posts that are complaints may render you temporarily banned, PM the mods for discussion.
Celebrate haiku, not an anguished existence. You have our sister sub r/MyDarkHaiku for your misery
Recommended reading:
Richard Wright - Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon
Jack Kerouac - Book of Haikus
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Sword sings through the air / Footsteps dance with fire and grit / Foes fall like shadows
21:50 UTC
My soft heart races / Reminding me its still there / I wish yours could too
16:34 UTC
I really loved her/ Plenty of fish in the sea/ Drowning in airwaves
04:04 UTC
like ocean and beach/relationship hard to see/embrace while they freeze
03:05 UTC
Roots reared in these clays/ her hands remember those days/ when flowers grew free
02:46 UTC
Awe, winter surrounds/ they turn in, hiding their gaze/ show me your beauty
02:42 UTC
Luminous the moon / Early it lights my morning / I am off to work
20:24 UTC
The light has turned green/ The sound of engines roaring/ As horns fill the air
17:42 UTC
The time is swimming / Against the body’s current / Grasp the final brink
09:44 UTC
instability / strips ossified pretending / it unleashes me
08:03 UTC
A city inside me / thoughts and memories collide / the outside is cold
07:45 UTC
slow rise in the east / bright light in the southern sky / shining through the night
02:22 UTC
Your voice brought me joy / a song I want on loop / the disc is now scratched
01:01 UTC
Your eyes were so bright / like a lighthouse to my heart / the switch is missing
00:58 UTC
Your touch to me is / like when my feet touch the ground / I’ve lost my footing
00:57 UTC
Perched on a thin branch / There is no fear in falling / With wings to lift you
21:22 UTC
Level up your game / level up your mastery / go and have fun now
20:54 UTC
ten years is a length / and looking east is future / long distance views back
19:53 UTC
A drear glow hanging/ Oppressively, fog lingers/Autumn in England
01:01 UTC
Summer falls behind / beneath bright decaying leaves / covering its tracks
S
23:44 UTC
A boulder fractures / Dust blows across the valley / Will it return home?
23:04 UTC
Never felt so real / Wrose to be evil than dead / Draging me through this
21:51 UTC
one and only wish/be buried in your embrace/come autumn moonlight
18:58 UTC
I can't play the drums/ But if you give me drumsticks/ I'll hit anything
Title: Watch Out, You Drum-Shaped Kid!
18:21 UTC
Green lush full of life / Retired slumped as the night falls / May your peace find you
To Aokigahara
17:45 UTC
History sighs deep / Harsh words, echo across time / Once more, it repeats
13:14 UTC
autumn leaves / the winds blow away / my regrets
07:19 UTC
sometimes stumbling / othertimes skipping beyond / rocks on frozen lakes
05:54 UTC
Gerbil on the wheel / never going anywhere / I need to break free
Gerbil on the
02:45 UTC
I stare at spreadsheets/ A paying means to an end/ And forgot my dreams
13:15 UTC