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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Gold winds
deepening the rusts
of autumn.
heads up...
wildflowers
in the first rain drops
In moonlight
the measure by a pebble
down the stone well.
after the drought
that first mirror
myself in a puddle
Her shadows touch too
letting the butterfly
around my face.
eucapypt-
in streaks of first light
two peepers- from the nest
Pointing up
she says shooting star
with a lisp.
Sunset darkens
nearly at the snake's young
the school boy's stick.
rose petals
still rain grown
to fall again
Railway cross-road
the quiet grazing
of the stockman's cattle.
holding the memory
I hold
the kid's tree house
cellar wines--
I cannot tell
what age brings
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