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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Sand bar
the king tide
rises over itself.
Platform heat
the winds of summer
and express trains.
Steel sink ... cooling for us
a baked pie
beside its apple skins.
Wearing out
rain puddles
the brightness of suns.
Too frail to sit on ...
still holding its shape
the rotten sugar-gum.
Old snake skin
in last year's rings
along the track.
Sudden frost
so rigid to touch
a frill-necked lizard.
Skipping school
the cicada's racket
in the boy's tin can.
Tomato stakes
how bent the bamboo
with tennis-ball fruits.
the full moon
down a furtive place
to the well water.
in the well water
once in a blue moon
the moon.
Still hovering
pinnacles of pampas grass
the dragonfly.
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