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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train whistles closer
our embraces held in,
the platform’s chipped paints
The Puma’s cage stinks
its eyes drill with a fierce brain
crammed dull by pacing.
river narrows
the force of a cloud burst
white with boulders.
Sunlit lake
the salmon swallows bugs
from the hole it just made.
high moon
the whimper of a nightmare
in the child’s turn
All set to rustle
the oak leaves corralled
by a rake.
Between breaths
it came swooping from rain clouds
a wedge-tail eagle.
living elderly–
to the patch of sun
a worn chair
After church
the pigeons peck around
in confetti and rice.
Finally
the camp fire colouring
the stone circle.
On the moon
only the river red Gums
reflecting.
Sunday lunch
dropping the family album
laugh lines slip out.
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