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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The whole of the paddock
to gambol
mother and foal.
Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.
waters breaking
the sun-blind windscreen
to the hospital
kindergarten gate
my childhood
as her hand came free
what approached the nine months
for you
I let in
The baby turns
her super-market trolley
almost full.
dribbling on my arm
I move the babe
from my breast
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
Burning raked leaves
the pregnant girl
twirls her mother's ring.
Swollen river
the mid-wife visit
just days away.
cherry blossoms fall
breast feeding
into her smile
first kick
lightens the life
she grows
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