Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry comprised of three phrases.
Traditional haiku uses 17 syllables (5:7:5) but contemporary haiku in English often ignores this rule. A haiku is typically about nature, the earth and the natural world and are designed to be thought-provoking. These original haiku poems are by Anthony Rutledge and are mostly written in the contemporary free style format.
There are over 2,000 Haiku on this site in ten different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Clothes line
swinging the laughs
of children.
fallen Gum
still the earth
to compost
beach dunes
the waves crash into
the sound of the gulls
in our back yard
greening a summer wind
the grapevine trellis
another couple
slow to pass
our frangipanis
Light circles out
perfectly
the swan's soft landing.
nursing home
our mother's bruise
pink with rouge
half-drowned in the weir
cray-fish feelers
at the tops of my legs
eucalypts
passing the lightning down
to where we stand
old gold-rush town...
afternoon crow calls
sifted by the wind
garden shed
from my drawer of bulbs
which tulips will answer earth
Spring rain
cacti shaping leaves
to the same needles.
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