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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Screen door
his bark at the letters
falling inside.
mountains of clouds
finding in the sunset
some homeward geese.
Gurgling stream
with just the moon to follow
...following.
Summer afternoon
still pencilled on the stone
yesterday's haiku.
coming home
your portrait hangs with
all his sketches of you.
After church
the pigeons peck around
in confetti and rice.
Plastic bags
kiting in the wind
the autumn brings.
ahead of us
a motel light
opens the fog
The doors open
movie goers dash
out to the night.
Suddenly awake
blinking at the lightning
city lights.
silk kimonos
pausing lovers
the thinness of paper walls
Early breakfast
an already summer dawn
baking the kitchen.
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