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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Greening
the tastes of the pond
waterlilies.
Becoming full
the summer weighs
the tree with mangoes.
My guitar riff
a breath of jasmine
has crossed the room.
Midnight breeze
rustling other leaves
an owl arrives.
Probing novelties
from the mud bay shallows
the old men Ibis.
Farm drought
in the wrinkles tattooed
on both their faces.
Water lilies
a duck under their skirts
feeling for snails.
The mountain snows ...
only the gliding eagle
to screech about it.
Autumn
raked leaves loosened
then the lizard's eye.
Tail swishing summer...
lazy with milk
our jersey to the old barn.
Sand bar
the king tide
rises over itself.
Wet weekend
the mists in the shade
of our town hall steeple.
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