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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Suddenly filled
the windjammer sails
suddenly limp.
Windjammer sails
her dripping fog
from hand to mouth.
Windjammer
half weighed down
from winter light.
Windjammer
spinnaker
straining to pull her.
a glide-by swan
circles of the sun
approach our canoe.
Sunshine
bedazzled the wildflowers
and brought the bees' buzz in.
Dawn watch asleep
fogs move aboard
the windjammer.
Windjammer snow
the cabin boy stands with his captain
turning white.
A swoop of gulls ...
the windjammer's sails
lifting all of us.
Winter light
the windjammer stripped bare
tied to her wharf.
Windjammer bones
yet the sea's first cooled rock
still its deepest treasure.
Spinnaker
filling sun
with wind.
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