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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snow fall
painting the yard
through curtain lace
edge of sight
the thermals reshaping
an eagle’s wings.
high moon
letters found seeming
our mother eloped
burning the future…
I search the house bones
nothing else to own
Beach party
waves still rolling in
from the stars.
Waterfall …
without the sun to dry us
it was then Laurel laughed.
Coconut palms
in the fire of the sunset
rustling breezes.
high moon …
their crispness tightening
in the apple skins
crescent
a salmon gulps
what’s left of the moon
Rear-view mirror
her rushed lipstick
at the traffic lights.
a winter walk
but for the fog dripping
the hedges would be wraiths
Lukewarm
sunshine reaching
the lily-pad’s roots.
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