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 full moon
faintly timed.
Sundial
the white summer cloud
measuring an hour across.
Sundial garden
moving handfuls of cow-dung
the bed of roses.
Sundial garden
re-writing school sonnets
under these autumn leaves.
Sundial
the garden Buddha's
eternal smile.
Garden sundial
slowly rocking the mantis
prays for some shade.
Garden fog lifts
midday
starting on the sundial.
Sundial garden
in the rows of carrot heads
our curled cat.
Sundial garden
footprints to the tool shed
caught in snow.
The garden wedding
moves around
the sundial.
Garden sundial
an ice frost
that was snow this week.
Sundial
mosquitoes whining
over the gardener's neck.
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