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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a morning fog
the river at rest
under the bridge.
Empty park
letting the storm
onto the swings.
Sensing home
pigeons together
through the storm.
Rustled garden
clouds corral
the sunspots.
Autumn chill
stars migrating
in the minds of geese.
Deep water
the white heart
of a full moon.
Homing pigeons
finding holes
out of the storm.
Sunday in the park
the kite's dragon eyes
tilting at heaven.
Merging circles
a trout leaps moonshine
around the lake.
I find they glow more
at twilight
the white roses.
Wedge-tail eagle
so long shadowed
the mountain moves.
Faster into it
the lower it sinks
the horizon moon.
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