5-7-5 Haiku Journal

Haiku by Gabriel Reuven Garcia

Smog above the streets
Does not deter their drinking
At the local bar.

empty the bottle
in rebuttal to the chill
we’ll blush with maples

By Millicent Bee

maple tree sapling
foliage of warm flame heats
Siberian breeze

By Kathyrine Sobredo

Moving through the days
Checking things off the checklist
Forging on ahead

regret is music,
sometimes i still think of you;
song of september.

Linda M. Crate has eighteen published chapbooks the latest being:
crescent moon (Fae Corps Publishing, July 2026)

“Why does dying take so long?”
Eighty-seven years
her question in the asking.

This is an example of the inverted 7-5-7 haiku form.

dog days of summer
we linger over breakfast
with lukewarm coffee

By Barbara Mosbacher Anderson

tiny appetite
suggesting just a morsel
breakfast and a breeze

By Aeronwy Dafies

sunset on tarmac
a hobo hums an old hymn
along the gold road

Beautiful sunrise.
Depression kidnaps the day.
Beautiful sunset.

worst case scenario for
the Adventure Club
rogue elephant in the room

By John H. Dromey
This is an example of the inverted 7-5-7 haiku form.

drinking rain-water
from a chalice of cupped hands
the tiny sparrow