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
how charged is the confetti
in the church-yard wind
high moon
the wind on a rope swing
over the river
high moon
on the pollen sparkles
of an after-rain
high moon
a buttercup pushes out
from a ribcage
high moon
fireflies flirting over
our neighbour's pool
high moon
just tumble-weeds passing
the barbed-wire fence
high moon
Laurel on her pillow
cradled by light
high moon
the old stone of Buddha
surrounded with Jasmine
high moon
all the still-born
becoming bones
high moon
bats leaving the fig tree
to stir another
high moon
the railway tracks
leading to rust
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