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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butterfly and mate
stirring the dust
in a sunbeam
Windjammer
tending your tall sails
sailors drown.
Used car yard
winter dinting us
with hail and rust.
our orange sunrise
adding its chirps
the sparrow near me
a floating mist
first light spreads into
the whiteness.
The chairman’s pen poised
over the merger contract
ice melts in our drinks.
storm wreak
a homeless man
bent over
art class nude
their model
flings her hair
salt breeze
a gull dive adds
its sound to the sea
Perspiration
spots darken the wood
in the spinning lathe.
sometime between the quakes
the cheval mirror
cracked to mirrors
Japanese girl
tightening a kimono
with gold leaves falling
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