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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the gap in her smile
one more bedside story
before the tooth fairy .
attic
doll
losing
face
webs
rainbows shift
on the window
green hills
I can't count
their grains down the river
Startled
in the garden shed
last winter's spider.
songs of dawn
the nestlings
don't yet know
Hay barn
the hoot of an owl
in the lover's silence.
well water
never able to ebb
with the pull of the moon.
her park
through crunches of white frost
the school girl- runs
Magazines down
on our crunching stone path
late guests.
Clouds rush
sunspots caught out
in the garden.
autumn falls...
and how the sun wanders
around our kitchen
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