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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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After his wake
father’s face
in my shaving mirror.
Laurel in the mirror
the many combs through
her rain soaked hair.
Then, come afternoon
mirrors on the dam
sprinkled with geese.
Cafe’ mirror
the blonde sipping quietly
under her red sun hat.
In the mirror
the room filled now
where Laurel dressed.
Card night
a newcomer in the mirror
reading all our plays.
Attic dust
the cracked mirror
the cracked mirror’s broken toys.
Small clear lake
below the mirror
flint-stone tools from the past.
Winds rattle
Orion wandering
about our bedroom mirror.
Lake picnic
no one seeing
the canoe drift away.
Mirrored
pirouettes of the old dancer
past the theatre windows.
In the wardrobe mirror
discovering
her hangers are empty.
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