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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Tomato stakes
how bent the bamboo
with tennis-ball fruits.
denting hail
still our cars
to be moved
boy's jam jar
the just loosened lid
for his butterfly's breath.
Homing pigeons
the eagle's shape
out of the blue.
An owl hoots---
the stream's murmur
agog with stones.
their tweets--
through the pack of sparrows
the bird-bath... fights
Remnants
of the harbour storm
wrestling boats.
adding
to the sounds of the sea
the gull dives
Lace curtains
so many full moons
to the pretty tot's eye.
toddler
her breath on the window
she fingers with
twin lakes
a duck dives in
the light of water
Re: Basho'
the moon bent river
finding the heart
to a haiku
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