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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Maples down our street
one keeping two
gold autumn leaves
Home renovations
my husband discovering
another woman’s letters.
The river forks
going along with the moon
to the sea.
Meadow frost
the way it spends a year
away from the sea.
Red traffic lights
the polished body
of the waiting hearse.
in the midday lake
we fish at times
a snow-topped mountain.
Screeching about
the tight corners
roller coaster.
bowl of strawberries
some haiku
passing my lips
river narrows
the force of a cloud burst
white with boulders.
Picnic with Laurel
touching her smooth skin she smiled
at my seemed folly.
Dawn opens
hunter calling hunter
around the zoo.
within
the goldfish bowl
nowhere
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