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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Solitaire card games
next door’s daughters
all home safe tonight.
Balcony breakfast
we watch the park glow with dawn
beside her packed bags.
Still smoking
sifted from the house
unburnt treasures.
star guided
the wild geese forsaking
their fatherlands.
living alone-
my dog and I
lick our plates clean
Buzzing
with chain saws
the rain forest splits.
Camp fire
making my grotesques
dance with its light.
sunrise
in a dream
I keep open
lucky fountain
the wish invisible
on the coin she throws
Sunday afternoon
suckling quietly
into her babe.
Winter shadows
a sun spot leaping
from the garden shed.
Black pond
a frog leaps into
the litter of stars (Basho’).
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