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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what approached the nine months
for you
I let in
Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.
waters breaking
the sun-blind windscreen
to the hospital
home opened for sale
the way they scattered
our children's toys.
cherry blossoms fall
breast feeding
into her smile
nine month's sway
serving their breakfasts
in summer heat
The whole of the paddock
to gambol
mother and foal.
Rolling over
her baby bump
the sea's soft swell.
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
her eighth month...
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
butterfly eggs
leaving the chances
for her generation.
at breast
in tender joy
her second born
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