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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our shooting party--
a kangaroo
licks my wound
sailing solo
along the horizon
he cannot see
Coloured balloons
tied to the front fence ...
the birthday ones.
spring showers
the whole street of bottle-brush
drips drips drips
At the cave mouth
wildflowers
in the tongue of a breeze.
The mountain snows ...
only the gliding eagle
to screech about it.
drift-woods
bringing the island
to garden
the filling
of tall tomatoes
with the glass-house heat
Playful !! maybe not
in and out of the pond's reeds
dragonflies.
Midnight snack
in the light , in the quiet
of a lonely day.
Mind full
our tom cat stepping
behind the magpie's warble.
the sun
in a mirror
returning the light
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