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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Father's church--
I will not agree
souls need saving
our coffees boil--
lost in the stars
the infinite
Aphis
suddenly on the roses
Spring ! ah ! Spring.
corn field-
through a sea of rustle
on horseback- wading
wall of fog '
in the whiskey bottle
my Saturday night.
Cafe' breakfast
stirring around sunrise
the autumn winds.
Old jailhouse walls
a rose-vine goes over
with the dawn.
A long horizon
working on the same catch
the herring gulls.
Her front step swept
recycling themselves
the crushed brown ants.
Fast but
tarantula just missing
the monarch's escape.
jazz album
letting the vinyl track
past midnight
office meeting
memories of a holiday
on the sands of a beach.
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