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
bats leaving the fig tree
to stir another
high moon
the rest of the henhouse
going the ways of a fox
high moon
on returning tides
the seeds of islands
high moon
unable to sleep
the crickets chirp
high moon
my selfie
of both our faces
high moon
icicles drip
the release of winter
high moon
our teenager late-
and off its head the sudden phone
high moon
the shape of streets
above the snow
high moon
a moth in the thrashings
a spider has stung
high moon
putting the dog out
underclothes iced on the line
high moon
the pain winter holds
in mother's hands
high moon
how charged is the confetti
in the church-yard wind
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