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 pull turtles feel
in their shells in the sand
high moon …
their crispness tightening
in the apple skins
high moon
bats leaving the fig tree
to stir another
high moon
with the pond frogs bloated
now they fight
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letters found seeming
our mother eloped
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the pollen counts
in an after-rain
high moon
pulls at the driftwood
shared with the sea
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the pain winter holds
in mother's hands
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the whimsy of the mists
under the orange trees
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our car tilting down
to the distant valley
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the rain holding it
held in the mud
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the rest of the henhouse
going the ways of a fox
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