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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Divorcee
listening to the wipers
clear the windscreen.
living elderly–
an owl’s wing
leaving goodbye
Total fire ban
flame-tree leaves
litter the park.
suddenly awake–
a beach umbrella
out of the wind
Star spelled
fairy ferns sprinkle snow
to the breeze.
School holidays
scattered on the table
their rushed breakfast.
peach tree buds
overnight
our future in pies
At last
a wave drawn to the beach
white with moon.
Bright orange dawn
with the others
the fading star of Venus.
holiday house
opening the front door
to someone’s rummage
summer winds
the inflated scarecrow
stranger to the crows
Lifting their praise
from the Sunday choir
the boy soprano.
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