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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Japanese girl
tightening a kimono
with gold leaves falling
Receding train …
a file of headlights
from the car park.
peach orchard
how many they picked
with me at school
Mountain trek
not seeing my smallness
until the lightning strikes.
a see-breath forest
the baying
passes between wolves
out of the Pines
how unhurried a fox slips
into the fog
Our home for sale
sparrows peck the lawn
near auction’s end.
barbed-wire fence
the tumbleweeds gathered
escape to the night.
City fog
office girls
coming through the park.
thunder at night
the lightning in Laurel’s eyes
before she lost it
the week-end drizzle
composing us mushrooms
between the trees.
living elderly–
the corrugated waves
the moons pull on
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