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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from magpie calls
my mind wakes-to
the colouring day
Red silk kimono
each sleeve holding
a grandchild’s gift.
Before us
in the bright stream
flint stone tools from the past.
Garden sundial
a mouse looks up from
the passage of the moon.
Swooping hawk
the mother cat’s
pink hiss.
along the river
no boats glide on
a summer breeze
In the mirror
the hedge our gardener
shapes like a wall.
My crime novel
geese cries returning
in the death throes of night.
In the mirror
deflating on the floor
a child’s birthday balloons.
Lake mirrors
the red Pines
of a sunset.
grandfather’s clock
chiming at
our fingers in ears
Express train
forget-me-not petals
loose on the platform.
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