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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To the gypsy geese
that return this year
our blue shining lakes.
Friday seance
our blanket covering
the mirror’s crack.
morning jog
every corner turning
to autumn Suns
The roaring is found
sunlight in a waterfall
dissolving stones.
the coffee pot boils–
I cannot join
my Zodiac stars
Blue lakes
at heaven’s end
dots arriving of the geese.
sharing the vast stars
my daughter and I
sip vodka and milk
grey lake
salmon quietly gulping
for misty air
Enough dawn !!
you too brightly pale
all these stars from today.
Evening stroll
the full moon
shouldered lightly.
Clouds rush
a sudden moon
betrays our tryst.
circles of gulls
the ocean’s
storm brewing
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