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 chill that showers
sprinkle over me...
sick friend's garden.
Midday heat
such fierce buzzing surrounds
the rainbow bee-eater.
Deserted
finding tomorrow
the midnight tram's headlight.
Farm drought
only the bore-water trough
to keep the sheep full.
Such blinding heat
just the shrill of cicadas
out of the dry north winds.
sunflowers in rain
the weeds I threw
onto the path
full moon
drawing the sea
to rock pools
Patio ...
listening to the autumn
crinkle leaves.
Parkland mist
the flame trees naked
in a cold dawn light.
Fathomless drought
the farm rusts
in sunshine.
Blackberries picked
our hands and smiles
the same purple.
The way the frog's slither
is slimy
from the boy's hands.
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