Category: Haiku Poems About Age, Sickness, and Death

Stopped traffic
Squirrel nudging
a dead squirrel

Moss
covered rocks
Sore throat

Spring flowers
The mother’s persistent
dry cough

My dog and
his favorite tree
For the last time

Each raindrop
returns again –
Labored breathing

Each raindrop –
Labored breathing
returns again

Suicide hotline
Broken branches gather at the bend
in the creek

Spray-talkers
Ants on a soggy
slice of bread

Antibodies
Robins peck
at the sunny grass

Bronchial narrowing
Thick snow
on the branches

Slipstream
Respiratory droplets
on the move