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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living elderly–
in one spring nap
the Gum trees bud
to walk round the paths
of a Zen garden,
or sit in Lotus
kitchen light on
a magpie
praising the dawn
Family courts
outside the creaking rooms
a child in frilly socks.
Park bench
waiting for the Emperor moth
to leave first.
Our bathing lounge chairs
burned by the sun…
Caribbean cruise.
Garden Buddha
the cat snarls explode
in the loose gravel.
my smart phone
when wet and naked
stops
In sleep
the far barking dogs
that won’t.
crime novel…
the geese honks
across my windows
Laying on the hot beach
her jasmine scent
comes over me.
Heaven high
a wedge of geese turns out
of the dawn.
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