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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Misty rain ...
quietly out of the dusk
the windjammer beside us.
Windjammer in the sun
sailing only
on the mantelpiece.
Windjammer open
after a bit of pushing
school children line the wharf.
Sunshine
bedazzled the wildflowers
and brought the bees' buzz in.
laundry door
children leaving years
scratched in the paint.
Arms folded
to the crescent moon
the windjammer captain.
in the closed fog
new- born lambs calling,
calling from the whiteness.
Horizon
the windjammer's slide
to the other side.
Windjammer
with mutiny below
the rise of cries and scuffles.
Windjammer
from a refit
all her stories to retell.
Grey harbour
a windjammer rolls in
on the storm.
the cat's whiskers
the purrs of a dance
in the school girl's arms.
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