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
a highway of spider silk
to the orange tree.
Autumn garden
the start to falls
refilling the pond.
Sundial garden
furniture where the party sat
shines with rain.
Suddenly there
a magpie on the sundial
shading midday.
Sundial garden
composing silence
after the cat fight.
From the sundial
a sprinkle of Wattle seeds
blown to earth.
Garden sundial
a mouse looks up from
the passage of the moon.
Sundial garden
only the green water-wheel
moving in the mist.
Sundial garden
where the cat strikes
the dove silent.
Sundial garden
feeling the heat
the honeysuckles exhale.
Sundial
the white summer cloud
measuring an hour across.
Garden storm
winter licking
the skeletons of trees.
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