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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high moon
my absent child
may well look to
high moon
the little town school
that father taught
high moon
in the ten thousand scents
exhaled by the earth
high moon
only the geese honk of it
a fog filling the lake
high moon
a splash of the Koi
where a nestling fell
high moon
with the pond frogs bloated
now they fight
high moon
the whimsy of the mists
under the orange trees
high moon
soaking an apple tree
moving to the next
high moon
the pain winter holds
in mother's hands
high moon
bamboo leaves
slashing the wind
high moon
the old stone of Buddha
surrounded with Jasmine
the high moon
and his whispers
loose in my hair
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