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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Shopping with mum
dragged behind the tot
her naughty doll.
I find they glow more
at twilight
the white roses.
Campfire coffee
the stars of the Universe
passes some time.
crescent
a salmon gulps
what’s left of the moon
Spinnaker
filling sun
with wind.
her birthday book
unfolds to its first page
a unicorn.
cactus plants
daddy pruning
my needle stings.
Tripped by a log
half-way to joining the stars
the flash of my torch.
seeing
how crescent the moon
when the child points up
Her back-yard wedding…
how changed
has our daughter’s play become.
Living elderly
the Universe has written
my poems before I start. Sarah Kay
living elderly–
now, blown by autumn
clouds in and out of the trees
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