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 4,000 Haiku on this site in 15 different themes: Australian, Beach, Garden Sundial, In the Mirror,Kimono,Motherhood,Ships and Oceans,Spring,Windjammers and Miscellaneous.
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Limp, rain, soaked
windjammer, moored
to the old wood wharf.
Tied to the wharf
history rocks
the windjammer.
a club night out
our awaited high C
from the jazz trio
Waterlilies
the wind finds a way
to raise their skirts.
A windjammer tour
kids below deck
in their ‘Arrhh’ pirate talk.
garden table
the book of history
leafed by a wind.
Grey harbour
a windjammer rolls in
on the storm.
Early bird
becoming day
the worm pulls back.
Old windjammer
I find the smells of spices
she holds.
a sliver of moon
the harvest ripe
rustling corns
A swoop of gulls …
the windjammer’s sails
lifting all of us.
Of summers past
the windjammer barnacles
tied to the wharf.
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