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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what approached the nine months
for you
I let in
Her eighth month...
stretch marks
along the sea shore.
nine month's sway
serving their breakfasts
in summer heat
first kick
lightens the life
she grows
Dandelions
their pregnancy
to the whim of the wind.
Near her term
leaves falling
past the lace curtains.
her eighth month...
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
Interstate bus
near term she rubs her face
on the window mist.
at breast
in tender joy
her second born
In her seventh month
the buffeting of school kids
inside the bus.
Swollen river
the mid-wife visit
just days away.
Burning raked leaves
the pregnant girl
twirls her mother's ring.
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