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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Bogong moths migrating
suddenly … ten thousand
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the shape of streets
above the snow
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where the river turns
the dingoes howling
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a buttercup pushes out
from a ribcage
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a moth in the thrashings
a spider has stung
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a stream of light
bubbling with pebbles
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how alert the frog pond
to the firefly's light
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sparkled with dew
my little pots of bonsai
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the grandchild at the window
counting some stars
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such a weight the dew hangs
from the spider webs
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letters found seeming
our mother eloped
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only the geese honk of it
a fog filling the lake
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