Winter Haiku Poetry to Warm the Imagination

There are so many reasons to love haiku poems, so we’re creating this winter haiku poetry article to share winter haiku poems from the iCreateDaily community. Creating art and poetry is a great way to warm up the winter season!

If you’re new to writing haiku poems, here’s a how to write a haiku article. There you will learn that there are rules and guidelines around how many syllables in each line, but that there is also flexibility.

Whether there was an exact metric in origin, is not completely clear, and then there’s the transliteration between Japanese and English, which naturally alters the metrics.

What is clear is that haiku poetry always has just three lines.

Fire in Winter Haiku

The banked fire.
The shadow of the guest
Is on the wall.

~Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet, 1644–1694

Lake Haiku

WINTER ON THE LAKE HAIKU

Lake sparkles in the sun
Bare trees let diamonds shine
Winter on the lakeshore

“Modern haiku” by Stella Myers, card-crafter, essayist, b.3/28/1944

Gratitude Haiku – Winter Haiku Poetry on Gratitude

GRATITUDE HAIKU

Reflections aloft
A grateful warm heart and hearth
A day to behold.

LeAura Alderson, creator, iCreateDaily.com

Hope Haiku – Winter Haiku Poetry on Hope

NEW YEAR HAIKU

In this bright new year
May our dark times fade away
As hope-beams appear

~Susan Schultz, sign language interpreter, artist, b.3/9/57

Humorous Haiki – Winter Haiku Poems

Let’s go out
To see the snow view
Where we slip and fall.

~Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet, 1644–1694

Old Man Winter Haiku

Old man Winter Brrr
Please go quietly along
Spring sing your sweet song 

Julie (Meehan) Courtois, writer, poet

Snow Haiku – Winter Haiku Poetry About Snow

SNOW HAIKU

Twinkling in sunshine
The many facets of snow
To my heart’s delight

~Shannon DeAnna Schofield, author writer, beekeeper

Trees in Winter Haiku

Winter trees laid bare,
standing naked without care
Proud grace in glory.

LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily®

Winter Day Haiku

WINTER DAY HAIKU

Clear blue sky cold wind
Typical day of winter
Inside county east

~Sally Kirkpatrick, retired teacher, essayist, artist

More Winter Poetry

WINTER THOUGHTS

Mid winter afternoon –
Blue tree-cast shadows
stretching over
the sparkling earth blanket.
Winter’s fresh white coat
dotted with tracks.
Settling down on
Autumn’s leafy debris
to await warmer day
that will nudge green shoots
from their slumber.

We are but echoes
of Nature’s rhythm,
in that there can be
great peace.

~Martha Grow, calligraphy artist, and poet

Find more examples of haiku in these articles: garden poetry, New Year Haiku or Spring Haiku. And for more on How to 5-7-5 Haiku Poems.