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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Burning raked leaves
the pregnant girl
twirls her mother's ring.
In her seventh month
the buffeting of school kids
inside the bus.
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
Her eighth month...
stretch marks
along the sea shore.
her eighth month...
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.
Late guests
the pregnant hostess
nibbles at their cheeses.
Turning in bed
her pregnancy
between us.
what approached the nine months
for you
I let in
Dandelions
their pregnancy
to the whim of the wind.
nine month's sway
serving their breakfasts
in summer heat
at breast
in tender joy
her second born
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