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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Video taped
cornered inside our space
the comet's tail.
winter morning web--
a spider's face
hangs with the dew
summer forest
leaving the chain saw to it
the butterflies.
Into dusk
the hitchhiker turns
his collars up.
night winds
a little bit of the tree
a raven's space
Hang glider
swirling out of the sun...
the child's eyes follow.
At drought's end
the earth sweet smell
of the cattle's breath.
Going ... coming ... going
driftwood tossed
along the empty beach.
Pub closed
the sailor against the fence
with these waves about.
as I lay under-
the river Gums
growing their new rings
Separated ...
a cave bat hangs itself
from the fig tree.
Migrating geese
the sounds of the summer
carried on a breeze.
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