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 2,000 Haiku on this site in ten different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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in the wind
plastics making a dump
of autumn leaves
Full moon
in a line of sight
that the owl makes day.
The storm moves on ...
passion fruits
black dots on the green lawn.
Spring breeze
Gums rubbing power poles
for any spark.
late with fog
the sunrise colours
the eucalypt's buds
Below sound
but the bull-ants have found
the fallen fledgling.
magpie songs
enjoying why
I came out early.
the fog clings
magpie songs
from one to another
her garden
still forget-me-nots
to walk through
first light
over river stones
a canoe-- loose
Breathless heat
the night hangs
in the scent of jasmine.
no wind sounds
just the willows dangle in
the lazy river
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