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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Her shadows touch too
letting the butterfly
around my face.
private
I steam open her letter
in an unknown hand
open tent
eucalypti touching
across the river
our dogs bring scents
of their morning run
seaweed beach
Jasmine petals
dancing with others
in the park’s whirlwind
mountain walk
butterfly come see with me
or find another!
Red silk kimono
the scent of jasmine
in her jet-black hair.
geese returning
the feel of old books
read in the afternoons.
the moon peering in
lifts the well water
to curve itself
their games-
in bird-bath fountains
the pigeons- flutter
out the window
she cannot love
her birding cat
Blue baby eyes
his mother’s milk
composing a burp.
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