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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In her seventh month
the buffeting of school kids
inside the bus.
Near her term
leaves falling
past the lace curtains.
waters breaking
the sun-blind windscreen
to the hospital
Her eighth month...
stretch marks
along the sea shore.
Turning in bed
her pregnancy
between us.
Dandelions
their pregnancy
to the whim of the wind.
kindergarten gate
my childhood
as her hand came free
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
The whole of the paddock
to gambol
mother and foal.
Rolling over
her baby bump
the sea's soft swell.
start of life
her first kick
in the guts
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