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
the rest of the henhouse
going the ways of a fox
high moon
the grandchild at the window
counting some stars
high moon
down our street
the Maples falling naked
high moon
all the still-born
becoming bones
the high moon
and his whispers
loose in my hair
high moon
a splash of the Koi
where a nestling fell
high moon
the river gives tongue
to the mouth of the sea
high moon
a defect notice
behind the windscreen's ice
high moon
falling through our windscreen
onto the next town
high moon
our teenager late-
and off its head the sudden phone
high moon
on the massage parlour
a graffiti … dries
high moon
soaking an apple tree
moving to the next
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