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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we fished
up to supper…
the campfire pan
Mum’s heat
drawing on life
to crack its egg
living elderly–
an afternoon heat
sniffed with the rain
In beach debris
the secret seeds
of many lands.
Koi ponds
changing my mind
about lunch breaks
butter
fried
rainbow
trout
the Basilica
I lean closer to the Pieta
for my selfie
I , an eagle …
heaving out to
the surface of air.
on our swimming pool
rains too
of blue Jacaranda
job interview
under-arm deodorant
hiding myself
camp fire
the wings an owl folds
in shadows
A dawn breeze stirs
into the fish pond
a leaf lets the moon.
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