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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hammering hail
the last page of our exams
Yes or No answers.
Old sailor home...
no escaping his tall tales
for the grandchildren.
Raising a shadow
at midnight
the fruit bat's wing.
Dances
drawn on the breeze
fireflies.
garden pond
Aquarius moves over
the gleam of water.
autumn leaves
at the stone-bridge creek
a horse and a girl sipping
A red wind
around their sand castle
the sunset beach.
Spider's sting
a life worth taking
the tiger moth.
High school
the fullness of bodies
chewing gum.
Sketched
before corruption
the fruit bowl's apple.
Dawn spreads
gulls manning
the beached canoe.
axed timber
stacked in a pile
the autumn leaves
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