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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Windjammer deck
the cat curls tighter
in the winter sun.
garden shadows
tossing the sparrow hops
hand to hand.
Migrating geese ...
the windjammer ruffled
with sails.
first of spring
sharpening the shadows
in the sunlight.
Dawn watch asleep
fogs move aboard
the windjammer.
An albatross glides
across the sky blue sea
a windjammer.
Windjammer in the sun
sailing only
on the mantelpiece.
faint breezes
to the apple blossom scents
buzz of the bees.
Windjammer
all the stars out
all the sails out.
Windjammer sails
the sounds of a shanty
sung by the crew.
Grey harbour
a windjammer rolls in
on the storm.
Windjammer
leaning back to guess
the height of her crow's-nest.
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