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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the fog clings
magpie songs
from one to another
sweat on my face
the re-varnished
oak table top
solo yacht
I tack windward
in the way of whales
Candles and wine
the white glove moon
on her ring-less hand.
The old couple …
flames from their raked leaves
fading now.
grandfather clock
the chimes
stirring my hair
winter’s end
the plum trees bloodied
in hail.
Frosting
the cake-shop window
iced hot buns.
Late home
only bedroom moonlight
on her form.
high dive
the boy leaps out to
the rush of water.
Winter is all bare
just the solitary jabs
from a woodpecker.
Windjammer
how the dawn breeze
fills her orange sails.
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