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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eucalypts
passing the lightning down
to where we stand
garden pond
Aquarius moving
onto Pisces.
shadowed river
following their honks
gypsy geese
Squatting in the fog
the silence of numbats
grooming their bushy tails.
and how I squint
at the sunrise
a grasshopper leaps so close
such is wind
the burnt Pine
leans
gentle rains
hens pecking
over the free range earth
letter box__
finding on the wire fence
sunlight through the dewdrops
grey morning rains
mushrooms
thrust the earth
At midnight
shrieking bats shrieking
from the cave's stone mouth.
the colt's first stand
changing directions
dawn colours the earth
Eucalypt valley
lightning bright enough
for the Gum leaves tremble.
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