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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chopping winter wood
a butterfly
stops my axe
insomnia-
the teenager also
in the next room
sounds of a tide
lapping the rock pools
then merging them
our park swings
so high
from grand-pop’s hand.
the family salad
our bowl of fruits
out of their skins
long drought
the small frog cry
at its end
The ward echoes…
our teenager pushed
to mother.
high moon
side by side
a sea-snake in the driftwood
still out of sight
the rising voice
of the waterfall
Windy forest
trying to paint the floor
with moonshine.
On the sunlit lake
that migrating geese
call home.
changing the tune
his trumpet had —
the attic
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