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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Misty rain ...
quietly out of the dusk
the windjammer beside us.
Limp, rain, soaked
windjammer, moored
to the old wood wharf.
Windjammer sails
pregnant
with the storm.
Windjammer snow
the cabin boy stands with his captain
turning white.
Sunday evening
after the garage sale
missing the book on Zen.
Windjammer sails
her dripping fog
from hand to mouth.
Windjammer
all the stars out
all the sails out.
Suddenly filled
the windjammer sails
suddenly limp.
Open seas
the windjammer hurls
her spinnaker out.
Windjammer
the sounds of an island
alone with the sea.
Windjammer sails
I pull up frozen
to the rope ladder.
Migrating geese ...
the windjammer ruffled
with sails.
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