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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Lift operator
whichever pretty girl
he coughs.
my kite
takes to its struggles-
autumn in the park
idle traffic--
the leaves of the late autumn
passing by
A long horizon
working on the same catch
the herring gulls.
Last puppy sold
their birth blankets burning
one by one.
This scent of rain
breaking out
the frog's urge to mate.
The moon
the frost crackles
in a puddle of ice.
So ! She was at home
reading love poems that rhyme
under the sheets.
Tangled garden
green snake coiled
in the apple-jack tree.
Sea waves
until one rises
merely the shapes of singing whales.
Mantelpiece
new frames
the old faces.
Midnight rain
the holes crows make
moving in the trees.
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