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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backyard Oak
I whittle on a copy
for our mantelpiece
twilight
Laurel
zips the blind
Picnics with Laurel
of youth, the canoes
of the wild blackberries picked with purple hands.
camping out
the waterfall pool
flashed by lightning
the distance
lightning cracks
into darkness
Dawn watch asleep
fogs move aboard
the windjammer.
out of our car
carrying the pails
of wild blackberries
drink in hand
Laurel’s karaoke
in that little black dress
Darkness and devils
my head bowed under
these shrieking bats.
Sundial garden
the tiger moth gives up
to the spider’s venom.
Bus stop
sweating in winter
the cake-shop window.
The stick returns
with the dog
with the river.
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