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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Bedroom mirror
the keys in a suitcase
she has never opened.
Summer's end
the unsung cicadas too
beginning to die.
Cracked mirror
each half of the room
becomes the other.
office meeting
memories of a holiday
on the sands of a beach.
Soldier crabs
here in scribbles
on the wet sand.
lily flower
its life-force
out of the pond
Gold chalice
over the Host
the priest's winy breath.
Barbed wire fence
kangaroo skins
cleaned by crows.
Wife moving close...
near the end of the wedding
their nervous vows.
Sundial garden
a cracking egg
surrounds the chick.
In the mirror
the time in the hour-glass
before it was turned.
A raging storm
our ocean Liner digs in
from wave to wave.
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