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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Open silk kimono
next to her skin
the breeze that moves it.
Red silk kimono
the cherry blossoms
carpet around her.
The rose-garden fog
fades
her red silk kimono.
Autumn hike
through the apple blossoms
her green kimono.
By the cherry wood fire
scented
her red silk kimono.
Red silk kimono
each sleeve holding
a grandchild's gift.
Red silk kimono
she and shadows
stretching at dawn.
Kimono geisha
netting a butterfly
then freeing her.
Red silk kimono
laying by the river
beside her.
Green kimono drying
how the wind clatters
among the bamboo.
her black kimono--
winds shimmer
its autumn leaves
Red silk kimono,
she steps slowly over
the puddles shimmer.
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