Hi folks,
we’re skimming over the fens and the lazy ocean waves today with a couple of haiku…
Snap
Soft snap of canvas
Above billow-bobbed sailboats.
Harbour-clad, sleeping.
Shuffle
Shuffled thrumming of
Oil-winged starlings, billowing
Across the hushed fens.
*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of Pxhere and Walter Baxter. My recent short stories include ‘Digging‘ and ‘Property for Sale – Grim-on-Wye’.
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, and Shooter magazine. He is a doctoral student at the University of Dundee, a lucky husband, and a proud father. He blogs at www.matthewjrichardson.com and tweets at https://twitter.com/mjrichardso0
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I just hopped on my laptop and I came across these gorgeous haiku: ‘harbour clad’ is warmly evocative: settled in for the night: exquisite 🙂
Thanks John. A wee trip to Hartlepool Harbour inspired that one. Fantastic fish and chips as well if you’re ever over that way!
I love fish and chips; thanks for the tip,Matthew 🙂
perhaps a fish ‘n’ chip haiku? now that would be something 🙂
Good idea John. I shall start ruminating!
hahaha; you know, I’ve never seen a haiku on fish ‘n’ chips, such a ubiquitous dish; somebody must be the first 🙂
Thanks Matthew for sharing another pair of masterly penned haiku. Have a great ‘Snap and Shuffle’ Day My Friend.
Thanks Goff. Happy weekend to you too, and as always thanks for the reblog!
Pleasure My Friend. Happy weekend to you too.
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“billowed-bobbed.” What a word picture!
Thanks David. The setting was lovely and the words really wrote themselves!
“Snap” and “Shuffle”: wonderful pairing, sharing a “billow.”
Is the oil on the starlings the natural preening substance, Matthew—or a reference to man-made disaster…or both?
Thanks so much. It’s totally natural – their plumage has an almost rainbow sheen to it. Absolutely beautiful!
I love harbor-clad.
Thanks Claudia. Hartlepool Harbour really did feel so enclosed, and the lights at night were beautiful.
Oh yes! These are wonderful, Matthew, especially the thousands of starlings!
Thanks Chris. I think you upgraded starling-wise when you moved to SA. Ours are perhaps a bit drab in comparison!
We don’t get the same huge numbers of starlings here. There are much the same species, mainly at the great, big mall (shudder).
😆
Beautiful
Thanks so much. Very kind of you!