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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The small boy's net
triumphant ...
his dozen tadpoles.
frangipani
a honey tongue suckling
on butterfly wings.
high moon
a river runs-off
with the nountain
Grey harbour
a windjammer rolls in
on the storm.
Eagle's screech
an orange peel squeezed
into your face.
Fifth birthday
yawning as she yawns
her black puppy.
the river forks
from the left hand side
honking calls of the geese
Winter storm
night collects
behind father's urn.
Raising a shadow
at midnight
the fruit bat's wing.
Waterfall ...
without the sun to dry us
it was then Laurel laughed.
In the chatter; the clatter
on her best china
mother's friends.
The summer brings me ...
sprinkling father
on our horse-shoe bay.
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