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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Breezing in
the summer unfurls
a flock of swallows.
Creeping under tin roofs
rust
of the sea fogs.
Rainforest
a backpacker takes
its stillness out.
Stray dog
first to the school yard
at holiday's end.
Whale watch
one wave rising
out of the blue.
Waterfall
the impulse to scrub
the sweat from my clothes.
Leaving the butterfly
to fumble in the web
Sunday walk.
high moon
our teenager late-
and off its head the sudden phone
Tropic isle
the polish dawn
leaves on the sea.
the moth flutters
between us
touching a window pane.
Sunday in the park
the kite's dragon eyes
tilting at heaven.
In the cascade
a tiny waterfall
without its sound.
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