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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Barbed wire
guarding those few
that sleep.
Unexpected...
loneliness
on this beach full of stars.
Country hospital
about four beds counted
for the up-turned bus.
Boy's kite
climbing on the breezes
out of the park.
dry lightning
the horses
bolt from fear
Cathedral closed
giddy with fear
the black bird's long caw.
Heaven high
veering left from the sun
the return of geese.
Skeletons ...
stark in winter light
trees on the hill.
Eucalypt valley
lightning bright enough
for the Gum leaves tremble.
Interstate bus
near term she is settled
into both back seats.
bus stop shade
the old man flings
his apple core out.
Such is pity
the spider cannot release it
the Emperor moth.
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