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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The rose-garden fog
fades
her red silk kimono.
Her blood drop caught
by pruning
white silk kimono.
she leaves the room
an after-image
her red silk kimono
Autumn hike
through the apple blossoms
her green kimono.
A sultry night
the house key hangs
where her kimono would.
cherry blossoms dance
in her kimono
Maple leaves on the blue
Red silk kimono
she and shadows
stretching at dawn.
snow outside
on her red silk kimono
our weekend affair
Red silk kimonos
the child and her part
at the school gate.
Red silk kimono
the scent of jasmine
in her jet-black hair.
Her red silk kimono
on our picnic
yesterday's rain in the grass.
Midnight, her cat
purrs on
the red silk kimono.
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