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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mountain sunset
gentle
a scent of childhood
Empty park
letting the storm
onto the swings.
Buried pet ...
a new puppy stirs
in her cradled arms.
winds will be winds
ants will be ants
with a butterfly's wing
Hovering above ...
a carp treads water
under the dragonfly.
Patio bonsai
losing their shapes too
in the spring rain.
Sunset on the sea
little specks of geese
as souls migrate.
White table
the poppy in a blue vase
so orange bright.
Wedge-tail eagle
so long shadowed
the mountain moves.
Faster into it
the lower it sinks
the horizon moon.
A magpie calls
the misty orange dawn
behind him.
Lover's look-out
the pulse of their city
under lights.
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