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 sails
pregnant
with the storm.
Windjammer deck
before the pelican
scatters the gulls.
garden table
the book of history
leafed by a wind.
Limp, rain, soaked
windjammer, moored
to the old wood wharf.
Windjammer
wearing her sails out
in the moonlight.
Brushing the horizon
the full bleached sails
of the windjammer.
A windjammer tour
kids below deck
in their 'Arrhh' pirate talk.
Windjammer
leaning back to guess
the height of her crow's-nest.
Sunshine
bedazzled the wildflowers
and brought the bees' buzz in.
the cat's whiskers
the purrs of a dance
in the school girl's arms.
Windjammer
how the dawn breeze
fills her orange sails.
Sunlit windjammer...
her captain
if I loved all the wild seas.
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