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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Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
Late guests
the pregnant hostess
nibbles at their cheeses.
butterfly eggs
leaving the chances
for her generation.
Interstate bus
near term she rubs her face
on the window mist.
dribbling on my arm
I move the babe
from my breast
The baby turns
her super-market trolley
almost full.
Window breeze
her pregnancy enjoys
the curtain tickles.
Swollen river
the mid-wife visit
just days away.
her eighth month...
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
at breast
in tender joy
her second born
home opened for sale
the way they scattered
our children's toys.
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