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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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high moon
the old stone of Buddha
surrounded with Jasmine
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the railway tracks
leading to rust
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another strawberry
Laurel’s tongue
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on the massage parlour
a graffiti … dries
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how alert the frog pond
to the firefly’s light
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spring pollinates
on the breeze
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geese forsaking
their father lands
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the whale’s rise and crashes
in being alone
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the turtles walk around me
back to the sea
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where the garden rusts
the wheels of my bike
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Laurel on her pillow
cradled by light
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the wind on a rope swing
over the river
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