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 2,000 Haiku on this site in ten different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Sail board race
how the colours reflect
the afternoon's spring.
glass house
the push of tomatoes
out of time
well water
never able to ebb
with the pull of the moon.
Dog chain
the taste of his biscuit
a tongue away.
Wild winds
my mind measuring
the loss of sleep.
first-light chorus
the first songs
for the first time
First birthday
radio songs
turning his head.
stone stairs
choosing where I step
on the fallen leaves.
never the gardener
I tend the herb beds
she turned
on the horizon-
so large a moon
leaving the sea behind
a curtain billows--
the changes to my lie
pinking her cheeks
Library books due
back to my childhood
a walk through the snow.
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