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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fire station
the national flag flaps
... they are all out
moon as the lace moves
on the open window...
oh! Laurel is talking
Out and out
of the cave's mouth
screams of the fruit bats.
and how I squint
at the sunrise
a grasshopper leaps so close
Wet weekend
the mists in the shade
of our town hall steeple.
Afternoon wind
its rush through corn leaves
green.
Gold chalice
frosted
the port-wine breath of the priest.
country hotel
the bikies wearing
their colours in
Bell bird
refills the emptiness
of a whitening fog.
holiday house
opening this winter smell
to the windows
Eucalypt
cicada shells drummed
by the autumn rain.
on a swaying branch
the crow's arrival
meets my eyes with hers
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