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 rest of the henhouse
going the ways of a fox
high moon
only the geese honk of it
a fog filling the lake
high moon
on the pollen sparkles
of an after-rain
high moon
the wind-mill retching
tastes of the earth
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a pale rainbow
in the waterfall spray
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on a framework of clouds
tattooing the sea
high moon
my absent child
may well look to
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just tumble-weeds passing
the barbed-wire fence
high moon
where the river turns
the dingoes howling
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the rain holding it
held in the mud
high moon
a stream of light
bubbling with pebbles
high moon
a defect notice
behind the windscreen's ice
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