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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horizon Sun
tacking starboard
to the darker shore
Zen garden
steel rusts
on the resting rake.
holiday house
following the sat-nav we
“Turn left at the next”
lighthouse
over the beach of pebbles
the yacht’s__ pieces
being Carnation
the head drooped in the garden
rises to the rain
home delivery
our Thai left-overs
on the plastic plates
Old Labrador
leaving one small bark
at the hen-house door.
her birthday book
unfolds to its first page
a unicorn.
being in fog
yet by afternoon breeze
sunflower touching sunflower
The eagle circles
small bits of sunlight
falling from him.
Bedroom mirror
the keys in a suitcase
she has never opened.
grandma’s garden
when my childhood
had a mother.
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