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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Covering the pillow
the dawn colours in
her long loose hair.
living elderly–
the crescent scooping the sea
at moonrise
netting them
is as flirtatious
as butterfly wings
in the late sun
I just faced
a butterfly
Snow melt
out of stone hillocks
re-birth of the stream.
old girl next door
her plastic rake broken
among the leaves
the pen-pal posted…
those deeper thoughts
I wanted to write
Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.
ripe boysenberries
behind the leaves
a long reach
Ghost Gum valley
silence but for
the stones of the stream.
stars on the lake
a summer galaxy
the swans push aside
in no songs
can the magpie tell
joys desert
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