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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Sundial garden
koi in the pond
turning to bubbles.
Garden sundial
folding wings two Monarchs
step out of the breeze.
The garden wedding
moves around
the sundial.
Garden sundial
an ice frost
that was snow this week.
Garden vines
grapes on a white lattice
sprinkled with rain.
cirrus clouds
sweeping time
from the sundial
Garden dawn
the sundial recording
its singing hour.
School children
into every parked car
their afternoon rush.
Sundial garden
the silent magpie
hearing the worm turn.
Sundial garden
the tart of the lemons
dusted with snow.
Sundial
the white summer cloud
measuring an hour across.
All in star time
to the garden pond ...
a billion years.
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