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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Barbed wire
guarding those few
that sleep.
Old sailor home...
no escaping his tall tales
for the grandchildren.
Railway cross-road
the quiet grazing
of the stockman's cattle.
mosquito pool
a crescent of moon
slowly turning green
Almost dodging
a shadow's leap
from the foot bridge.
Wind rattles the house
the moon glows in
on child to child.
Greening
the tastes of the pond
waterlilies.
From the earth's bowels
the smell of a drought
digesting the rain.
grey morning rains
mushrooms
thrust the earth
Midday or later
the shrill of cicadas
across the heat of the park.
Still tacky
in green wet paint
the platform seats.
Heat haze
a wire fence in the lake
of a mirage.
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