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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goldfish
plucking breakfasts
as her taxi calls
honey jar opened
flowers out the window
in a breeze
On the wall of graffiti
we pass at lunch,
nearly perfect … a blue orchid.
midnight bats
still the fig seeds
to scatter
Aegean waves
sails filled by the wind
flap all afternoon.
Sundial
the white summer cloud
measuring an hour across.
Dawn watch asleep
fogs move aboard
the windjammer.
In the garage mirror
a closer lean on father
repairing her doll-pram’s wheel.
ripe boysenberries
behind the leaves
a long reach
Campfire coffee
the stars of the Universe
passes some time.
Monarchs
picking the river stones
to rest their migrations on
In forest
a cat’s tail swishing
around the fog.
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