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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garden table
the book of history
leafed by a wind.
Dawn watch asleep
fogs move aboard
the windjammer.
Horizon
the windjammer's slide
to the other side.
Migrating geese ...
the windjammer ruffled
with sails.
Misty rain ...
quietly out of the dusk
the windjammer beside us.
The fog rolling in
with the fleet
fisherman's harbour.
Strolling onto work
past all the pleasure yachts
to our old windjammer.
Windjammer
the sounds of an island
alone with the sea.
Rain forest
between the Pines
highways of silk.
Windjammer fog
back to my childhood
seeing a ghost.
the cat's whiskers
the purrs of a dance
in the school girl's arms.
mushroom search
the fog thickening
tree after tree.
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