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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Antiques shop
awakening
grandmother’s lilac scent.
her fifteenth
I loosen the time home
on our daughter
living elderly–
once in a blue moon
the moon on well-water
camping
the silence in
the nearness of dawn
violin concerto
the distance
between each note
low moon
shadows of me here
in the doorway
Spinnaker
filling sun
with wind.
high moon
the bubbles of shampoo
in my children’s hair
Rolling on home
eyes closed in the train seats
with the moon.
Still smoking
sifted from the house
unburnt treasures.
Fishing fleet
into the sleep
of home port.
the sunset’s bled…
taking my partner inside
the rhymes of Blake
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