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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seeing
how crescent the moon
when the child points up
covered mushrooms
still autumn leaves
to feed more
Maples down our street
one keeping two
gold autumn leaves
summer breeze–
to a holiday house
a seagull calling
country hotel
through the open window
hearing the trees move
Cemetery
dried wreaths becoming
the crow’s new nest.
tot and I gardening
in a turned log
the dank smells of re-growth
Mum’s heat
drawing on life
to crack its egg
fallen Oak
its open grave
bathed in light
fire ash
still the past
to sift
Dumped bathtub
the rains turned green
in the mosquitoes’ way.
White water rapids
tear at our clothes in fury
yet their taste is sweet.
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