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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summer breeze–
to a holiday house
a seagull calling
back home
once in a blue moon, the moon
on the verandah
wet
on the new-laid path
the smell of old bricks
the pen-pal posted…
those deeper thoughts
I wanted to write
Garden pond
the many turns in moonlight
of the golden carp.
gentle rains
hens pecking
over the free range earth
Fog around the trees
a deer in gun sights
comes and goes.
perfumed roses
the distance
our tot will tiptoe
cave bats
the energized
old fig tree
Dusk comes …
straps-off-her-shoulders heat
in the rattling fan.
Windjammer storm
entangled
all hands in the sails.
street lights
the distance
the grey moths circle
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