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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always to be great whites
lording in the seven seas--
the crabs watch them pass
Surf breaks
stretching for a gold bottle top
the tumbled boy.
Scorning
the waves of tourists
the whale's suckling calf.
Mediterranean cruise
the hour dawn takes
to fill the sea.
There ! deeper out
in the washing machine
a driftwood or a surfer.
Bright glinting waves
before I squint
... glint more after.
Tropic isle
a crow's-nest falling
from the horizon.
Tropic isle
pieces of mirror
the sinking sun.
Aegean cruise
grandmother's
story to learn.
the clouds are wild
a lightning cracks
our shadows on the sea
One whale
its wink so knowing
beside our boat.
the buoys toll
a wave lifts a hand
to raise our yacht
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