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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Harvest
a row of cabbage heads
pops out of the fog.
In the scheme of things
great shading trees know their worth
to breathe out man's breath.
Street worker
each shadow reaching
just where she walks.
Winter picnic
our shadows and our edges
lost in the grass.
Summer showers
a scatter of dragonflies
chasing mates.
Bathroom mirror
the day brushed into
her tousled hair.
Half through
concerto
the Steinway in lights.
Garden shed
some old haiku found
re-wording a few.
Vine-choked Temple
the breeze in one crack
whistles from another.
jazz trio
ice in our cocktails
melts in silence.
Silence
slumped in the kindergarten
with summer heat.
The spider must wait
carrying her eggs
the fly escapes.
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