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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seeing
how crescent the moon
when the child points up
Being summer
jelly-fish melting
above the tides.
Heaven high
veering left from the sun
the return of geese.
out of pain
he views the surgery
from above
dusk joins the trees
in the eggs a moth leaves
her generation.
Country road
almost home cows sashaying
with their udders.
Labrador and I
waiting for the moon rise
to whiten the snow.
In her stones
the old stream trickles
another thaw.
Rain forest
all the edges blurred
green.
Thunder rattles ...
the quiver of ferns
in their garden beds.
Snow-fed falls
waters breaking
the birth of a river.
in winds to-be-rain
whittling a branch
on my back-yard steps.
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