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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Oasis palms
a flotilla of camels
has crossed the sands.
he sees again
her tilling their herbs
without gloves.
Jogging slower
under the flowering Gums
that sing with cicadas.
Sunset beach
waves at the children's castle
coming and going.
In the last train
following
the storm home.
In forest
a cat's tail swishing
around the fog.
Sunday afternoon
puppies everywhere
after leaving the nipples.
The break
in a fog that clings
the winter moon.
Sand bar
the king tide
rises over itself.
She stoops to sip
the cool spring mouth
quenching another.
Back to my childhood
I wipe a bit of jam
from the tot's lips.
First dew ...
not far from home
picking field mushrooms.
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