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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Bush walk
found in the heat
a clearing full of sky.
Lifting mist
the shapes of dawn
in the mushroom field.
Sunrise beach
the strut of gulls
printing the first few tracks.
Sundial garden
moving handfuls of cow-dung
the bed of roses.
Empty church yard
the way the wind sounds
inside confetti.
Tropic isle
in the sinking sun
it's gulls I hear.
waiting room
a book of haiku
beside poems that rhyme.
Dunes
hurling sand
into the sea's storm.
winter holidays
the warmth from grandma
closing her front door.
in our frying pan
the trout's rainbow
melts into butter
Lover's lane
windscreens fogging
their silence.
beside our canoe
the swans leaving
the brush from their wings.
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