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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Full moon
crooning to the cattle
their favourite old tunes.
Job interview
returning home
in and out of shadows.
Summer afternoon
just before iced teas
the cicadas start.
a canoe rows
the moon river
tide keeps moving
wet weekend...
the slow attentiveness
to rigging the model ship
her park
through crunches of white frost
the school girl- runs
Boy's butterfly kite
with nothing to snare it
but a summer cloud.
dolphins dot
across our boat
leafless trees...
thoughts filling
with winter
Winter jog
the heart pulse
of a stranger's hearse.
sunrise is over
how virtuous the stream
spilling over stones
Red traffic lights
the polished body
of the waiting hearse.
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