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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Migrating geese
middle of the wet lands
middle of the year.
before dusk
a quick green wind
shows the underparts of trees
Wheat field
the urge to meander
in the waves of the wind.
Becoming waves
my reasons
to be buried at sea.
high moon
all the still-born
becoming bones
Did I let it handle
my finger tips
this starfish in the shallows.
In the jade Buddha
almost a heartbeat
almost heard.
Dawn opens
the faintest sweep of willows
over the river mud.
A second earthquake ...
the mirror crisscrossed
from crack to crack.
House open
the realtor's soft sell
in the bedroom's silence.
Polishing an opal
its light from a thousand eyes
pressed by violent earth.
Today's outing ...
at the duck pond
the old girl and her bread.
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