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
home opened for sale
the way they scattered
our children's toys.
School soccer ends
the halves of oranges
from their pregnant mums.
start of life
her first kick
in the guts
Window breeze
her pregnancy enjoys
the curtain tickles.
nine month's sway
serving their breakfasts
in summer heat
The whole of the paddock
to gambol
mother and foal.
Strolling past sunflowers
at eight months
now she accepts their nods.
her eighth month...
mid-summer grapes
plump on the vines
Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.
dribbling on my arm
I move the babe
from my breast
Her eighth month...
stretch marks
along the sea shore.
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