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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autumn begins
a change to the books
I take to read outside
as I leave them...
Gum trees gathering
to sunset
Drying farm
the silence of his moods
at the family table.
Kookaburras laugh
no need to look up the river Gums
for a reason to smile.
Autumn
raked leaves loosened
then the lizard's eye.
Waterfall ...
without the sun to dry us
it was then Laurel laughed.
sunrise
composing colours
a ewe squeezes her lamb out
leaving
the morning shower
cold
Farm drought
only the bore-water trough
to keep the sheep full.
Lingering
under the waterfall
a brace of lovers.
Crow caws
deepening
the city's fog.
dust and drought
a boat almost afloat
points up river
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