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
Swollen river
the mid-wife visit
just days away.
her eighth month...
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
The whole of the paddock
to gambol
mother and foal.
kindergarten gate
my childhood
as her hand came free
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
Late guests
the pregnant hostess
nibbles at their cheeses.
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
The baby turns
her super-market trolley
almost full.
Near her term
leaves falling
past the lace curtains.
Strolling past sunflowers
at eight months
now she accepts their nods.
cherry blossoms fall
breast feeding
into her smile
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