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
on the massage parlour
a graffiti … dries
high moon
right where the lake is
a snow-topped mountain
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the old stone of Buddha
surrounded with Jasmine
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icicles drip
the release of winter
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our talk of divorce
taken outside
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a stream of light
bubbling with pebbles
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the little town school
that father taught
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fireflies flirting over
our neighbour's pool
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letters found seeming
our mother eloped
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falling through our windscreen
onto the next town
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in the frail light
a sick friend's garden
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a moth flutters
between our faces
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