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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Un-rented house
the autumn change too
hovers in its trees.
Retired dancer
opening
her red curtains.
Dawn opens
hunter calling hunter
around the zoo.
Meadow frost
the way it spends a year
away from the sea.
late dusk
the swings to moon-glow
the swing and I.
annual leave
my slow warm love
of the afternoons.
Brand new house
our first sunset
falls silent.
sea breeze window
between me my R.E.M
and the tides of sleep
Race course
two dragonflies drawing round
to the long strait.
Your headlights split night
a little town of hamlets
with a bridge beyond.
With the stick
with the dog
with the river.
Lime-stone caves
letting my phone film
a million years.
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