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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Boat harbour
feeling all nine months
she feeds the gulls.
Turning in bed
her pregnancy
between us.
home opened for sale
the way they scattered
our children's toys.
Swollen river
the mid-wife visit
just days away.
Rolling over
her baby bump
the sea's soft swell.
butterfly eggs
leaving the chances
for her generation.
Dandelions
their pregnancy
to the whim of the wind.
Farm drought
among his other thoughts
his pregnant wife.
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
Interstate bus
near term she rubs her face
on the window mist.
Near her term
leaves falling
past the lace curtains.
Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.
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