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
our teenager late-
and off its head the sudden phone
high moon
all the still-born
becoming bones
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only the geese honk of it
a fog filling the lake
high moon
the river gives tongue
to the mouth of the sea
high moon
a moth in the thrashings
a spider has stung
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the bag-lady's old pram
turning round the corner
high moon
Laurel on her pillow
cradled by light
high moon
on the massage parlour
a graffiti … dries
high moon
my children
sniff the garden herbs
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a river runs-off
with the nountain
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letters found seeming
our mother eloped
high moon
the paths it crosses
to sail overseas
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