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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Harbour fog
ghosts of a windjammer
following the lamp.
Windjammer
leaning back to guess
the height of her crow's-nest.
Windjammer passing--
a whale calf looks back
to its mother.
Windjammer sails
her dripping fog
from hand to mouth.
Windjammer open
after a bit of pushing
school children line the wharf.
I stop our motor
to let it past ...
the windjammer sails.
the cat's whiskers
the purrs of a dance
in the school girl's arms.
streaks of dawn
catching the lilac bush
then colouring it.
Old windjammer
I find the smells of spices
she holds.
Transitory rainbow
a sliver of sun
pours on the hills.
windjammer sails
red ballons
in the sunset harbour
Limp, rain, soaked
windjammer, moored
to the old wood wharf.
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