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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waterfall brook–
over smooth stones
the first light–colours
camp site
a patch of burnt bush
wears waving new leaves
rainbow
bridging the hills
I drive to
parrots forage
their first born chick
clearing the nest out
Homing pigeons
finding holes
out of the storm.
in grandma’s diary
the distance
they drove on to elope
bush medicines
in songs my mother taught us
when I would listen
Garden vines
grapes on a white lattice
sprinkled with rain.
Upturned stone
still with the earth
my pencilled haiku.
my daughter’s lisp
the snow flakes’ hiss
on street lights!
gold autumn leaves
those fallen skeletons
for their rebirth
Wedge-tail eagle
so long shadowed
the mountain moves.
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