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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Homing pigeons
the eagle’s shape
out of the blue.
No hint of surf
only the feel of quicksand
between the child’s toes.
Mangrove mud
letting the tide return
in small sun flashes.
Kitchen lights on – –
the spider’s moth
fights harder.
Tender giantess
at the rear of whales
the calf’s mother.
Swimming back
the full moon
a pathway to the beach.
Sand bar
the king tide
rises over itself.
One finished,
shoe-shine man in his mirror
polishing the other.
open tent
the breathing from trees
taken by the wind
gentle autumn Sun
the sounds a breeze gets
stirring a leaf pile
fallen Gum
still the earth
to compost
Sundial garden
just genes sprouting
the tomatoes out.
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