Summer takes two different forms in this week’s haiku…
Summer
Retreating into
shadowed corries and high crags –
summer snow, fleeing.
Sea
Flat, viscous – lulling
fishermen into thinking
the sea is their friend.
Thanks for reading folks. Recent short stories include ‘Deposition‘ and ‘The Worst Part‘.
Matthew Richardson is a writer of short stories. His work has featured in Gold Dust magazine, Literally Stories, Close to the Bone, McStorytellers, Penny Shorts, Soft Cartel, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Flashback Fiction, Cafelit, Best MicroFiction 2021, Writer’s Egg, Idle Ink, The Wild Word, Down in the Dirt, and Shooter magazine. He has a Professional Doctorate in Education. Matthew blogs at www.matthewjrichardson.com.
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So beautiful
Thanks Satyam!
Both are excellent, and both have a dark side – especially the second.
Good choices, Matthew!
Thanks Chris!
Lovely poems With a nice twist.
Thanks Chris. Very kind of you.
It’s great to traverse the seasons with your consciousness-expanding haikus, Matthew.
Thanks Annie. I’m just glad we’ve left winter behind. I was beginning to run out of inspiration!
Nah! You would have found something else.
❤️
The second poem has a foreboding twist at the end, like many of your short stories. The first would fit nicely in a coffee table book of micro poetry. My nod goes to haiku #2–vintage Richardson. 🤗
Haha thanks David. I’d like a coffee table book of micro poetry – excellent idea.
enjoyed these two, Matthew esp ‘Summer’: it gave me a word to look up: ‘corries’
Thanks John. Had to reach back into my high school geography syllabus for that one!😆
lol
I liked this a lot – Thanks Matthew.
Thanks Christopher – very kind of you!
Beautiful ❤️
Thanks so much! Very kind of you.