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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Red dragon wings
the boy's birthday kite
in the park's breeze.
the sudden shadow
of a hawk to the tree
we crouch down under
afternoon clouds-in
the stings of beach sand
the wind brings
the summer's third moon
a whale feeding bub
where the river enters the sea
Out and out
of the cave's mouth
screams of the fruit bats.
beach walk
the smells of the ocean
it brings to shore
day off work
all morning how gentle
the fog drips! drips! drips!
desert rain
still urgent
to seed
Crescent moon
climbing not moving
the Pine cones.
Reaching the full moon
the nearly straight fence
of barbed wire.
Ferris-wheel lights
her pirouettes and pirouettes
in the queue.
A crescent moon
the solitary stares
between the cattle.
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