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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flitting butterfly
so many roses to tour
Sunday afternoon
horizon
letting our sails fill-in
the first light.
mountain sunset
gentle
a scent of childhood
All afternoon
the wind following
the scarecrow's shadow.
afternoon breeze
a rose bush
scents the rain
last orange rays
the smoke of a cruise ship
in the sea of stars.
Nursing home
our fishing day out
yet father always leads.
Snow melt
out of stone hillocks
re-birth of the stream.
Brushing the sky
a moth enters the fall
of oak leaves.
Cast off
in the Frangipani falls
a tiger snake skin.
Express trains
the thinness of the weeds
in the platform cracks.
All day alone
then lightning thunders
in the hills, in the echoes.
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