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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School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
Rolling over
her baby bump
the sea's soft swell.
at breast
in tender joy
her second born
Strolling past sunflowers
at eight months
now she accepts their nods.
kindergarten gate
my childhood
as her hand came free
The whole of the paddock
to gambol
mother and foal.
Boat harbour
feeling all nine months
she feeds the gulls.
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
Dandelions
their pregnancy
to the whim of the wind.
Near her term
leaves falling
past the lace curtains.
Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.
In her seventh month
the buffeting of school kids
inside the bus.
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