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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Red flowering Gum
how the cicada has quietened
in the boy's dirty hand.
high moon
the cruise ship berthed
in party lights
Mirrors
returning to rock pools
the full moon tide.
By the cherry wood fire
scented
her red silk kimono.
Winter outside
the glass-house tomatoes
and I perspire.
Un-rented house
the autumn change too
hovers in its trees.
Sparkling lake
the race of sailboards
hints at summer.
All day alone
then lightning thunders
in the hills, in the echoes.
Garden sundial
a passing snow-ball
from the school boy.
Sunday morning
a tiger moth in danger
of my mower blades.
His first school day
so alone
pruning her few bonsai.
First light - -
the orange dawn
becoming blue.
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