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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bat squeaks
the cave shaped
to their sounds
Stopping me
photographing the lorikeets
an Emperor moth's arrival.
Drawing the curtains
to stand in it
my vacation's first dawn.
Red traffic lights
the polished body
of the waiting hearse.
timber cabin
only the far far snow
making me write
butterflies-
where the fences meet
a spider- weaves
long dangling
threads of sun dew...
then the spider's face
Sunday afternoon
giggling
her dog's quick shake of its bath.
cupid's arrow
in the coal mine
in the timbers
in salt-pan smells
dragonflies mate
along the breeze.
loneliness
mother's house
she keeps on hoarding
Stone path
the gold autumn leaves
shoe shuffle deep.
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