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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Clothes line – –
cormorants drying
outstretched wings.
Curve of a rainbow
the lisp of the child
counting the colours.
Summer drought
washing the taste of ant
from the copper saucepans.
such a low moon
framed
by the doorway
Beyond the mower’s edge
leaning back
the daffodils.
Autumn rustles
in twilight breeze
her black silk kimono.
Eggs laid
the butterfly finds the beach
ready to die.
Mirrored lake
silent salmon sip
the floating moon.
Thunder bolts
in fading light
the rush of showers from the sea.
hearing the night
sousing with winter
in the downpipes.
Red sports Jaguar
the blonde’s long cool glance
over mine.
The slow softening
under stones
a wet weekend.
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