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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Bedroom mirror
the keys in a suitcase
she has never opened.
In the mirror
behind a fly speck
Saturn and its rings.
Lake mirror
a pelican crosses
the path to the sun.
Grand staircase
a waltz in the mirror
from the ballroom below.
In the mirror
the hedge our gardener
shapes like a wall.
Rocking chair
in - - out of the mirror
grandmother's crochet.
Cheap motel
the call girl avoids
seeing the mirror.
Window mirror
sunflowers pollinating
into the wind.
Birthday dress
in the mirror
she spins herself between us.
Shattered mirror
a perfumed letter caught
fluttering out.
Goldfish
slippery kissing
at the mirrored sides.
Southern Cross
on the mirrored side
of the lake.
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