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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Window breeze
the curtain of moonshine
in…out…in.
living elderly–
the garden tool rust
invisible
A jazz record–
the blues from the jacaranda
floats to the lawn.
a humming bird hovers
her stamina
each sip brings
meteorites-
through our breathing air
the big bang’s- matter
ladder up
to Mum’s attic…
my nearly full youth
late night poker games
in a luck most absurd
driving home high
Bus stop seat
a brown bite
in the red apple.
across clearings
I feel no breeze stir
just the leaf sniffed by a fox
Lake mirror
how the stallion guards
the mare’s drinking.
high moon
letters found seeming
our mother eloped
geese returning
the feel of old books
read in the afternoons.
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