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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Fallen nest
a sudden sadness
to the stooping child.
office meeting
memories of a holiday
on the sands of a beach.
vacation
the last emails
I choose to answer
harvest moon
the humming of a stone well
in the wind.
our small town
the immense starlight
wheeling slowly.
Winter snows
tomato skins stretched
in the hot glass house.
First Gum leaf
on the knotty branch
tickling the breeze.
travelled waves
the last of the holidays
around her feet
midnight wind
fire light throbbing
over her crime novel.
Furniture restore
new wood under
the old brown paint.
daughter's visit
her gently raking
my autumn leaves.
The roaring is found
sunlight in a waterfall
dissolving stones.
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