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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holiday house
the airs of the town
it breathes by the sea
Sleeping on the beach
Divine
among the stars.
Moonlit beach
her body my body
in bed with the sand.
rock pools
gifting their mirrors
to the ebb tide
Winter beach
dragged by the leash
the dog's little girl.
their beach-
touched by first light
our two dogs- race
Our picnic finished
gulls among the scraps
not worth chasing.
Sunrise beach
the strut of gulls
printing the first few tracks.
salt breeze
a gull lifts from
the sounds of the sea
A moonlit walk
yet in the morning
not a footprint by the sea.
soccer ball
the long beach
quickens the wind
Along the stormy beach
we often walk
waves retching their seaweed out.
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