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
folding wings two Monarchs
step out of the breeze.
cirrus clouds
sweeping time
from the sundial
Garden sundial
the tiger-moth wrestling
in a circle of silk.
Sundial garden
winter tightens
the apple tree skins.
Sundial garden
re-writing school sonnets
under these autumn leaves.
Garden sundial
in full moon
the turn to autumn silent.
School children
into every parked car
their afternoon rush.
Garden sundial
each cloud pass
taking time.
Sundial garden
vegetables and flowers
for the family table.
Autumn garden
the start to falls
refilling the pond.
Garden sundial
a highway of spider silk
to the orange tree.
The spider's dash to the fly
then losing it--
sundial garden.
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