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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Garden sundial
the autumn clouds
fickle with time.
On the sundial
.... butterflies....
the breezes from their mating.
Sundial garden
the tiger moth gives up
to the spider's venom.
Garden sundial
a moment taken
by the shadow of a bird.
Garden sundial
the tiger-moth wrestling
in a circle of silk.
Sundial garden
a butterfly wings
in and out of the breeze.
Garden storm
winter licking
the skeletons of trees.
End of holidays...
the beach waves unchanged
around my feet.
Without a sundial
my father's garden
also in spring bloom.
Garden sundial
bees sharing
the blossom's need for pollen.
Sundial garden
just genes sprouting
the tomatoes out.
Rose garden
the crushed-brick-path smells
of summer rain.
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