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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cherry blossoms fall
breast feeding
into her smile
Late guests
the pregnant hostess
nibbles at their cheeses.
Boat harbour
feeling all nine months
she feeds the gulls.
kindergarten gate
my childhood
as her hand came free
Interstate bus
near term she rubs her face
on the window mist.
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
first kick
lightens the life
she grows
Near her term
leaves falling
past the lace curtains.
Dandelions
their pregnancy
to the whim of the wind.
Swollen river
the mid-wife visit
just days away.
dribbling on my arm
I move the babe
from my breast
Rolling over
her baby bump
the sea's soft swell.
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