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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Summer art class
our watercolours preserving
the rises of seeds.
Scarlet forest
sunset slanting
through the ghost gum leaves.
before
her school day
the magpie park to cross
Home lakes
geese cries forgetting
the ocean flight.
Hot apple pie
our dessert spoons
digging deep.
nothing else, all is drought
just the tumble-weeds
piled at the fence
Fallen Gum
in unfamiliar light
the eager of her saplings.
father's shed
all his weekends spent
mostly in neatness.
Snow-fed falls
waters breaking
the birth of a river.
Cicada in the tree
becoming more like us
the child listens.
Coloured balloons
tied to the front fence ...
the birthday ones.
Dry lightning
in the white-gum's litter
leaves smoke.
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