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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seeing home
brightens the stream
she drives through
Passing a flame tree
onto the hearse
autumn adds a leaf.
Echoing
lime-stone caves
another tiny drip.
Old sailor home...
no escaping his tall tales
for the grandchildren.
Confessional
the sound from some priest
forbidding my sins.
blue with desert pools
the drought dry thin stock
he shoots through their eyes
Gold winds
deepening the rusts
of autumn.
Grandmother's eyes ...
the months of her mantelpiece's
un-wiped dust.
Muscatel vines
storm clouds
rushing the harvest.
Closing fog
the willow drips
sounds of the river.
each new pupil
in the ink stains
of others
birds singing
how coloured
the day fills-in
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