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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In the mirror
the mantelpiece Buddha
lit by the moon.
Home alone
mirrors in the mirrors mirror
his mother's shattered mirror.
Pink bedroom
her thirteenth birthday
begins in the mirror.
Mirrored
pirouettes of the old dancer
past the theatre windows.
Lime-stone caves
dripping into mirrors
without light.
Bedroom mirror
night cream jars
bright in autumn sun.
Mirrors
on the morning dew
the peach tree it fell from.
In the mirror
the chandelier lighting
its own small room.
Window mirror
grape vine squeezing
the gold of dawn out.
Lime summer dress
Laurel twirls herself
in the long mirror.
In the mirror
the chatter of wag-tails
after rain on the lawn.
In the mirror
the silence of snow
on our neighbour's car.
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