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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Late guests
the pregnant hostess
nibbles at their cheeses.
Farm drought
among his other thoughts
his pregnant wife.
Her eighth month...
stretch marks
along the sea shore.
In her seventh month
the buffeting of school kids
inside the bus.
Boat harbour
feeling all nine months
she feeds the gulls.
Rolling over
her baby bump
the sea's soft swell.
Pregnant
the new flowered sheets
for our months ahead.
Swollen river
the mid-wife visit
just days away.
what approached the nine months
for you
I let in
home opened for sale
the way they scattered
our children's toys.
cherry blossoms fall
breast feeding
into her smile
The baby turns
her super-market trolley
almost full.
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