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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grandma's lunch
children around old lace
in the light of the sun.
Open seas
the windjammer hurls
her spinnaker out.
An albatross glides
across the sky blue sea
a windjammer.
Clouds rush
a moon leaps from
the frog pond.
Windjammer sails
I pull up frozen
to the rope ladder.
Arms folded
to the crescent moon
the windjammer captain.
laundry door
children leaving years
scratched in the paint.
Left to shudder
with the thunder
windjammer sails.
Light-house beam
returns to the windjammer
caressing her.
Windjammer
from a refit
all her stories to retell.
Brushing the horizon
the full bleached sails
of the windjammer.
Windjammer
tending your tall sails
sailors drown.
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