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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Tied to the wharf
history rocks
the windjammer.
Motel door
cobwebs of fog
between the mountains.
Evening stroll
the full moon
shouldered lightly.
old horse barn
the strapper
sniffs a sunbeam
make-up mirror
in drawing her eyes
to the girl’s-night-out rain
Circus lights
seeping from her balloon
‘Its tiny orange breaths’.
from magpie calls
my mind wakes-to
the colouring day
an eagle long-cry
hooked as the beak
it lives by
without a bucket
a well dropped
stone.
Sundial garden
just genes sprouting
the tomatoes out.
school re-union
a remembered laugh
cracks the ice
sound travels
for no special purpose
a magpie wakes me
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