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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On the mirror
a fly crawls over
the fruit bowl's apple.
Lake mirror
how the stallion guards
the mare's drinking.
Sundial garden
a cricket chirp short
of twilight.
Rear-view mirror
her rushed lipstick
at the traffic lights.
In the mirror
the tot counting stars
with her baby lisp.
In the mirror
the hedge our gardener
shapes like a wall.
Brushing
her REM sleep
the sea-breeze curtain.
In the mirror
how soft the square of moon
over the sleeping tot.
A window breaks- -
down in the lounge-room mirror
curtains flutter.
Bedroom mirror
from a bad dream
the opening door.
In the mirror
the blue of her baby's eyes
suckled at the breast.
Grand staircase
a waltz in the mirror
from the ballroom below.
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