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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After the storm
tulips brimming
with moonshine.
Dim hallway
the grandfather clock
unwinds its chimes.
Friday night poker
hands dealing into
a square of the moon.
Lukewarm
sunshine reaching
the lily-pad's roots.
Strange fruit in the mango tree
the dog guards
the cat's escape.
Spring warms
I untie the bamboo string
around the wind-chimes.
A winter wind starts it - -
willows lashing
the grey river.
After martinis
the lost sunset
chilling us.
After
this mountain climb
content to stare to beyond.
Telescope
out of infinity
the red plains of Mars.
Buoy bells...
how untroubled its ride
in the swell.
Cormorants
before us
diving below the lake.
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