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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the opening of stars
our campfire’s smoke
rise to silence
Beach pavilion
an Emperor moth and I
outwaiting the storm.
Wet weekend
the mists in the shade
of our town hall steeple.
Closed by the fog
the sharp rock mouth
into the sea.
Autumn chill
stars migrating
in the minds of geese.
Summer breezes in…
a moon falls through
the window.
Spring hives
the buzzing spreads out
to wildflowers.
summer starts–
geese from their fatherlands
g l i d e to our lake
Ocean Liner
alone on the sunset
alone on the sunset’s fire.
Park bench
waiting for the Emperor moth
to leave first.
seeing
how crescent the moon
when the child points up
spider sting
in the thrashing of the moth
its life-force
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