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
away on her own
a tryst with the sea
A breathless dawn
the windjammer wheel
no one stands to.
Brushing the horizon
the full bleached sails
of the windjammer.
Sunshine
bedazzled the wildflowers
and brought the bees' buzz in.
The fog rolling in
with the fleet
fisherman's harbour.
Old windjammer
I find the smells of spices
she holds.
An albatross lands
at once the windjammer
fills her sails.
Windjammer in the sun
sailing only
on the mantelpiece.
Gentle breeze
grazing on the sea
a moonlit windjammer.
Open seas
the windjammer hurls
her spinnaker out.
Dawn watch asleep
fogs move aboard
the windjammer.
Windjammer
how the dawn breeze
fills her orange sails.
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