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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lunchtime break...
you let yourself in
to straighten our fight and mess
Swarming with stars
an unblinking Mars
alone pink.
Meadow frost
the way it spends a year
away from the sea.
a carnation
leans to another--
letting the bees play
On the canvas
yet to brush in her flesh
the artist's nude.
The concrete sets
adding the nickname
I had from youth.
Library books due
back to my childhood
a walk through the snow.
Hospital bed
on my return from the tunnel
of enfolding white light.
autumn turns
a leaf abandoned
to the windy web.
garden
Buddha's
eternal
smile
corn field-
through a sea of rustle
on horseback- wading
streaks of dawn
on a reed in frost the butterfly
knows no beauty
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