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
all the stars out
all the sails out.
in the resting fog
new- born lambs call
from the whiteness.
Windjammer anchor
I find its start to rust
in the rose's bed.
Migrating geese ...
the windjammer ruffled
with sails.
Windjammer fog
back to my childhood
seeing a ghost.
grandma's lunch
children around old lace
in the light of the sun.
Windjammer
from a refit
all her stories to retell.
windjammer sails
red ballons
in the sunset harbour
Transitory rainbow
a sliver of sun
pours on the hills.
Limp, rain, soaked
windjammer, moored
to the old wood wharf.
Windjammer sails
flecks of salt
flicked to the sun.
Windjammer sails
her dripping fog
from hand to mouth.
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