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
with mutiny below
the rise of cries and scuffles.
Under glass
the windjammer's log book
inked with history.
Tied to the wharf
history rocks
the windjammer.
Windjammer
flapping sails, she turns
to the light out of dawn.
frangipani
a honey tongue suckling
on butterfly wings.
I stop our motor
to let it past ...
the windjammer sails.
Windjammer bones
yet the sea's first cooled rock
still its deepest treasure.
Windjammer passing--
a whale calf looks back
to its mother.
Windjammer deck
before the pelican
scatters the gulls.
Kitchen table
the moon falling off
to brown lino.
Brushing the horizon
the full bleached sails
of the windjammer.
Suddenly filled
the windjammer sails
suddenly limp.
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