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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camping
birds will be birds
such chatter about dawn
This morning’s fog …
I am swallowed in the park
with magpie calls.
The blonde’s pony tail
sweeps over her shoulders
exercise gym.
old folk’s home
phoning an up-date
of my troubled girl
high moon
the dart of squirrels
to the kid’s treehouse
before
her school day
the magpie park to cross
Bay shallows
stabbing for any young thing
the old man Ibis.
By degrees
the glint from the window panes
bedazzled with dawn.
dust and drought
a boat almost afloat
points up river
reading haiku
beside them
a perfectly small bug
Face-painting
being mother
she tries it before her doll.
beside the pond
a lily
out of life-force
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