r/haiku

swiftly silently/the line of geese/crosses the sky

u/Living-Age-4669 — 4 days ago

rustling leaves / a blue bird chooses / this cradle

u/Reyedeku — 4 days ago

▲ 11 r/haiku+2 crossposts

A world of dew drops/ And within every dew drop/ A world of sorrow

(A World of Dew by Kobayashi Issa)

u/annamae — 5 days ago

summer evening / train window holds / smudged fields

summer evening—

train window holds

smudged fields

u/Scholiastic — 6 days ago

Minutes and hours / Spent staring at photgraphs / No new ones to see

u/Big-Experience-3232 — 6 days ago

only the sound / of a child’s gasp / summer eclipse

u/dogproposal — 8 days ago

An old silent pond/ A frog jumps into the pond/ Splash! Silence again.

(The Old Pond by Matsuo Bashō)

u/annamae — 8 days ago

pastel blue sky / the dog's shadow / melts into mine

pastel blue sky—

the dog's shadow

melts into mine

My haiku effort is meant to be read with the extended brief pause, the em dash.

u/Scholiastic — 9 days ago

coins on your headstone / say nothing of your true wealth / you’re rich with decay

u/JBoc924 — 10 days ago

O snail/climb mount Fuji/ but slowly,slowly - kobayashi Issa

u/fx23tof — 10 days ago

Face haunting my night / I breathe out my sighs till dawn / Longing for the sun

u/Big-Experience-3232 — 9 days ago

Oh Magic Eightball / Reveal my destiny / Ask again later

u/oscarw1962 — 12 days ago

empty walls, bare rooms / homely things now neatly packed / echoes of lives led

u/arendelle_queen — 12 days ago