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 window mirror
she passes to work--
her bump rounder
Home alone
mirrors in the mirrors mirror
his mother's shattered mirror.
Lake mirrors
the red Pines
of a sunset.
Sundial garden
then in winter nests
just sparrow bones.
Rear-view mirror
re-joining the stars
the last small town.
Rear-view mirror
her rushed lipstick
at the traffic lights.
After his wake
father's face
in my shaving mirror.
A noise downstairs...
it stirs from my torch
in the mirror.
Grand staircase
a waltz in the mirror
from the ballroom below.
In the mirror
white rose above the thorn
with a spot of blood.
Rear-view mirror
headlights...
the sense of it before the crash.
Rocking chair
in - - out of the mirror
grandmother's crochet.
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