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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Kimono geisha
netting a butterfly
then freeing her.
Blushed green
among the patio ferns
her white silk kimono.
Wind
ruffled black kimono
a crow mates crow.
The rose-garden fog
fades
her red silk kimono.
A sultry night
the house key hangs
where her kimono would.
White silk kimono
her sunlit hair
more rainbow than black.
Autumn hike
through the apple blossoms
her green kimono.
Green kimono drying
how the wind clatters
among the bamboo.
Red silk kimono
still shimmering light
in her mirror.
she leaves the room
an after-image
her red silk kimono
Open silk kimono
next to her skin
the breeze that moves it.
her black kimono--
winds shimmer
its autumn leaves
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