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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Late guests
the pregnant hostess
nibbles at their cheeses.
Rolling over
her baby bump
the sea’s soft swell.
her eighth month…
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
Window breeze
her pregnancy enjoys
the curtain tickles.
The baby turns
her super-market trolley
almost full.
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
Farm drought
among his other thoughts
his pregnant wife.
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
Burning raked leaves
the pregnant girl
twirls her mother’s ring.
at breast
in tender joy
her second born
first kick
lightens the life
she grows
what approached the nine months
for you
I let in
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