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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edge of sight
the thermals reshaping
an eagle's wings.
Windjammer
leaning back to guess
the height of her crow's-nest.
Pub closed
the old windjammer sailor
finds his legs unsteady.
Light-house beam
returns to the windjammer
caressing her.
In winter waves
a sudden storm bemoans
the windjammer.
Windjammer
flapping sails, she turns
to the light out of dawn.
Windjammer limp
only an albatross
circles and circles.
Tied to the wharf
history rocks
the windjammer.
Early bird
becoming day
the worm pulls back.
Horizon
the windjammer's slide
to the other side.
Strolling onto work
past all the pleasure yachts
to our old windjammer.
Full of sails
the windjammer home
near day's end.
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