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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Train doors spring open
the butterfly's flutter in
finds me.
Kindergarten sleeps
one tiny soldier
still finger painting.
art class nude
their model
flings her hair
Crescent moon
climbing not moving
the Pine cones.
Homeless...
the lazy river
in a wide brown flood.
Wind rattles the house
the moon glows in
on child to child.
Immersing fog
the caws of magpies
around me again.
Sunday afternoon
the merriment of ants
with a butterfly's wing.
First gin and tonic - -
after some rain
the chorus among magpies.
gold autumn leaves
those fallen ' skeletons
for their rebirth.
Interstate bus
near term she is settled
into both back seats.
Kid's first circus
then the fall-down sad-face
bike-ride of the clowns.
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