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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Diaries found
each hope so neatly written
in our grandmother's hand.
right where I stand
the caressing fall
of the maples.
Our Sunday's roast
father first winding
the grandfather clock.
The fragrant candles
our dinner
small talked out.
I hate their dull brains
I hawk, scattering pigeons
dive to tear off heads.
Windy church yard
the confetti spirals
dance with themselves.
pottery kiln
the cracked vase
showing my mistake.
Ah! almost summer
a school boy fishing
from the old wood bridge.
Serving the wedding cake out
so girly again
in her tight pink jeans.
the snow's turning
of our back yard
--- the bare branches
between sips
the taste of old rains
from the stone well.
Beauty parlour
the sound of the nail file
shaping her past.
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