Poems for Haiku Summer (The Poet’s Summer Description)
Poems for Haiku Summer – Traditional and structured, this short form of Japanese poetry is well-known for its rule of 5/7/5: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five again in the third.
Haikus are known for their ability to paint a vivid picture in just a few words. A practice of artistic discipline, their minimal nature forces writers to pare down to only the essentials making each word, or even syllable, count.
Summer Dissipates
Summer dissipates
viridescent willow wisps
frenzied honeybees
azure sky smiles
gnarly grasshopper singing
creeping violets
discerning monarch
damselfly competition
lilac fragrance wafts
ethereal mist
supercilious confidence
ushering autumn
melodic bird song
sizzles saccharine summer
as she floats away
– Poem by Caren Krutsinger
Clockwise
Gold pink orange dawn
rise up refreshed in sunshine
like a fragrant bloom
in torrid noon hour
emerald green and jaded
birds sing to summer
reds mauves turn dusky
shadows lengthen into night
glimmering moonbeams
midnight of dreaming
diamond stars are twinkling fire
music in the night
– Poem by Evelyn Judy Buehler
One Day of Summer
Beautiful sunrise
On a warm summer morning.
I wait for day’s start.
Rosy colored sky
On a cool summer evening.
Glorious sunset.
– Poem by David Fox
Strawberry Moon
Full strawberry moon,
ushers in hot days of June,
high tides fill the dune,
hot sun rising soon,
fishing in the afternoon,
whistling my own tune!
– Poem by Patricia L. Cisco
Haiku- Sunflower
Blooming and bobbing
flower power head turner~
feasting goldfinches
I passed a dancing sunflower on my walk today,
out sprang a goldfinch.
– Poem by Maureen McGreavy
Haiku X 58- Green Fingers
Filled with fresh flowers
An understated beauty
Well-designed garden
Captures attention
Magic really takes place
It relieves my stress
Summer garden fair
Creative spirit revive
Beautiful touch
– Poem by Sunshine Smile
Spring Summer Fall Winter – Haiku Chain
Springtime flowers prom
lily scent violets blue blooms
sweet scents fragrance cues
summer sandy beach
swimming snorkeling blue surf
seasonal exploits fun
fall stout guards still stand
canopy red brown and tan
leaves final dance
winter coats frost fleece
snowy ivory chalk mounds
cast blank white canvas
– Poem by Ronald A. Williams
A Shore
The drops of ocean
blend into the salty winds,
and the sea gulls cry.
Clouds hang heavy, low,
like Summer moons the color
of the nibbling gulls,
and the opaque waves
swirl around the bare, calloused
feet, the sand sucking.
Mountainous rocks, coal-
black, are wet from the rising
tide. Wedding white bursts.
– Poem by Jennifer Cahill
Late Summer Fires
The paddocks shave black
with a foam of smoke that stays,
welling out of red-black wounds.
In the white of a drought
this happens. The hardcourt game.
Logs that fume are mostly cattle,
inverted, stubby. Tree stumps are kilns.
Walloped, wiped, hand-pumped,
even this day rolls over, slowly.
At dusk, a family drives sheep
out through the yellow
of the Aboriginal flag.
– Poem by Les Murray
The Summer Sun Shone Round Me
THE summer sun shone round me,
The folded valley lay
In a stream of sun and odour,
That sultry summer day.
The tall trees stood in the sunlight
As still as still could be,
But the deep grass sighed and rustled
And bowed and beckoned me.
The deep grass moved and whispered
And bowed and brushed my face.
It whispered in the sunshine:
“The winter comes apace.”
– Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Old Pond Poem
An old silent pond…
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Autumn moonlight-
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut.
In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus –
A lovely sunset.
–Poem by Matsuo Basho
Haiku Poems are a peculiar type of poem, and we have a few really great poets that have written this kind of poems such as Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, William J. Higginson, Masaoka Shiki, and many others.
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