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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Garden sundial
a mouse looks up from
the passage of the moon.
City rain
cars on the bridge
cocooned in their lights.
All day alone
then sunset gilds
the autumn leaves.
Mushrooms rise
from the dewy earth
its other hushed births.
Coming aboard
the Black sea cruise
my birth-sign stars.
From the black on white
the crow leaves
just the snow.
child’s play
on our summer lawn
raising grasshoppers
clock tower
a dawn stretches
the town turning red
Sunset sinks
a brumby splashes through the river
to the cool green hills.
In the mirror
lace curtains strumming
the guitar on the bed.
nude art
model’s hair
still to brush
last orange rays
the smoke of a cruise ship
in the sea of stars.
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