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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grandma's lunch
children around old lace
in the light of the sun.
Before the windjammer
a path laid
by the moon's rise.
Windjammer sails
flecks of salt
flicked to the sun.
Windjammer
leaning back to guess
the height of her crow's-nest.
Arms folded
to the crescent moon
the windjammer captain.
The windjammer turns
her summer breeze spilling
from sail to sail.
Windjammer
wearing her sails out
in the moonlight.
Her sails stowed ...
silence
aboard the windjammer.
A swoop of gulls ...
the windjammer's sails
lifting all of us.
frangipani
a honey tongue suckling
on butterfly wings.
Old windjammer
I find the smells of spices
she holds.
A breathless dawn
the windjammer wheel
no one stands to.
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