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.
Pub closed
the old windjammer sailor
finds his legs unsteady.
Windjammer
half weighed down
from winter light.
the fog lifts
watching a drop's measure
until it must fall.
Windjammer sails
her dripping fog
from hand to mouth.
Windjammer
brushing the stars
to the moon.
The city swelters
across the windjammer deck
a sea breeze that cools.
Open seas
the windjammer hurls
her spinnaker out.
Clouds rush
a sudden moon
betrays our tryst.
Left to shudder
with the thunder
windjammer sails.
grandma's lunch
children around old lace
in the light of the sun.
creaking as she moves
the windjammer
stretches into the first light
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