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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Un-rented house
the autumn change too
hovers in its trees.
Midnight lake
a salmon leaps from
its hole in the moon.
garage sale–
the midday rain
reducing our prices
greener pastures–
the still born curled
where the herd left it
wind shifts
in a spider web
the butterfly wings
to the rooms of monks
the early bell peels
cold in a grey fog
Raspberries
pink with the hailstones
oozing away.
School boys pass
the dog’s bark pops
his eye balls out.
Bay tide ebbs
just the usual pelicans
sifting near the shore.
Midnight
graffiti drying
along the old girl’s fence.
the wide white mountain
then in whose dream
a snow leopard.
greener pastures
a colt struggles
to Mum’s nipples
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