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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Both tyres flat
a child's bike beginning rust
against the sundial.
Garden sundial
the autumn clouds
fickle with time.
Sundial garden
only the green water-wheel
moving in the mist.
Sundial garden
the sleep the owl is losing
to the cold of the moon.
Sundial garden
the tart of the lemons
dusted with snow.
Cool heavens ...
Orion moves into
the affairs of men.
Sundial
the waterwheel washes
the gardener's hands.
Sundial garden
just genes sprouting
the tomatoes out.
Sundial garden
a butterfly wings
in and out of the breeze.
Your over-sea's trip
I think in shadows
moving over you.
Sundial garden
the silent magpie
hearing the worm turn.
Rose garden
the crushed-brick-path smells
of summer rain.
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