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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talking of divorce
the distance
the split still hurts
sails limp-
the breeze fails and fails
to tack us- home
footprints in the rain
the winter beach resort
half filled
the moon-rise snakes
in slow curves
of the river
I hear the wind telling
in autumn rustles–
no leaf returns exactly
Sundial garden
just genes sprouting
the tomatoes out.
patio naps–
the sound the twigs scratch
on the old tin roof
Pencilled
heights of the children
behind the laundry door.
Fewer migrating geese
out of the storm
out of the rainbow.
Winter waves
the old folk finding it snug
in their tourist bus.
sounds of a tide
lapping the rock pools
then merging them
Cathedral
sunset lighting a spire
the last one
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