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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attic sunshine
all their school-year things
they left to us
Flood recedes
a patch of sunlight
wrinkled in mud.
Fallen nest
a sudden sadness
to the stooping child.
birds singing
how coloured
the day fills-in
The sheep mob nibbles…
a mother dumps her new toy
and inspects it.
morning Sun
the forest
breathes my breaths
camp fire
the wings an owl folds
in shadows
a record drought
the Gum trees weeping
with their stress
cracking the mud
at the end of it
the river drought
In the mirror
lace curtains strumming
the guitar on the bed.
Dance class
then the Latin rhythms in
our long walk home.
bobbing
falls of autumn
the rainbow trout
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