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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Window breeze
her pregnancy enjoys
the curtain tickles.
Interstate bus
near term she rubs her face
on the window mist.
Turning in bed
her pregnancy
between us.
The baby turns
her super-market trolley
almost full.
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
Strolling past sunflowers
at eight months
now she accepts their nods.
home opened for sale
the way they scattered
our children's toys.
Near her term
leaves falling
past the lace curtains.
her eighth month...
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
Late guests
the pregnant hostess
nibbles at their cheeses.
In her seventh month
the buffeting of school kids
inside the bus.
Her eighth month...
stretch marks
along the sea shore.
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