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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Whales around us …
along repeated highways
migrating south.
hearing less
her maze of opinions
about the house
Midday sun
slowly ending
Sunday’s lay-in.
Red dragon wings
the boy’s birthday kite
in the park’s breeze.
Kindergarten
she makes any crayon
her coloured sky.
Wind in my hair
sunset clings
to the sea-eagle’s back.
pencil eraser
rubbing me
out of a haiku
living elderly–
once in a blue moon
the moon on well-water
First light
a murder of crows
over the dead lamb.
airing father’s suit
our shadows
return the touch
summer forest
leaving the chain saw to it
the butterflies.
Loop-tailed kitten
composes it a friend
prancing in the mirror.
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