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 fog
back to my childhood
seeing a ghost.
Transitory rainbow
a sliver of sun
pours on the hills.
Windjammer sails
her dripping fog
from hand to mouth.
A swoop of gulls ...
the windjammer's sails
lifting all of us.
Full of sails
the windjammer home
near day's end.
Windjammer limp
only an albatross
circles and circles.
Windjammer helm
enough rain in the breeze
to bring the smells of canvas.
The windjammer turns
her summer breeze spilling
from sail to sail.
Windjammer sails
pregnant
with the storm.
in the resting fog
new- born lambs call
from the whiteness.
Windjammer
spinnaker
straining to pull her.
A windjammer tour
kids below deck
in their 'Arrhh' pirate talk.
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