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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rain
I cannot answer
which drops were once in me
thunder
clouds rushing
the summer showers
Closing time
letting the pretty bar-maid
pirate our change.
Crossing
on the new sheets
the barbed claws of her kitten.
Incoming tide
sky blue seeps
into horse-shoe bay.
Father
carving
Sunday’s
roast
sounds of summer
a bull roars out to
the stings of flies
Autumn dusk
the kitchen light deeper
into the garden.
Paused in the parade,
the wheeze of the bagpipes
marching again.
Soprano
how vital the applause
should choke.
House open
the realtor’s soft sell
in the bedroom’s silence.
sea breeze
a wing filled
to raise the gull.
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