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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Vase of flowers
creeping to the sun
on the table cloth.
Summer garden
about a dozen glow worms
being the light.
Friday night is stormy
yet in our seance
the taps paint another world.
death of my father
our fishing spot
still under the willows.
Canoeing
ahead of us
the storm rushed clouds.
Thin mountain airs
letting the wedge-tail eagle
fall onto the dove.
Clothes line - -
cormorants drying
outstretched wings.
autumn is burning
we play hide and seek
in grandpop's garden
hearing the night
sousing with winter
in the downpipes.
In the garden breeze
my coffee alone
unsweetened.
Bush walk
my torch no longer
over father's back.
Flower show closed
alone in its perfumes
an arc of the moon.
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