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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with its peach skins in
grandma’s jam
bubbling on the stove
Corn field
a rider parts
the ocean.
Garden shed
surprised… a spider
behind the old biscuit tin.
high moon
the light of a white moth
flitting between gardens
grandpa’s windscreen
the build-up of salt
from the sea spray.
a man-made pond
the one small frog
taken in
Summer wind chimes
the fireflies spinning
around the night air.
tsunami
still the future
to sweep
Of summers past
the windjammer barnacles
tied to the wharf.
dusk just passing
an abandoned homeless man
in the park
Midnight
graffiti drying
along the old girl’s fence.
high moon
another strawberry
Laurel’s tongue
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