Sleeping and Soft | Haiku

Poetry 1 Minute

We’re through the darkness and into the dawn with a couple of haiku today…

Black and white picture of a moor

Sleeping

Night thrown long, over

Sleeping byre, over quiet moor,

Over windswept swell.

Embers of a fire

Soft

Soft shift of embers.

Fragile whites, glowing ruby,

Fading in the dawn.

*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of Simon Evans and PeakPx. My recent short stories include ‘Cleanliness is Next…‘ and ‘We, the Dead‘.

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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Published by Matthew J. Richardson

Words in Gold Dust magazine, Literally Stories, Close to the Bone, McStorytellers, Fiction Junkies, Soft Cartel, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Flashback Fiction, CafeLit, Best Microfiction 2021, Writer’s Egg, Idle Ink, and Shooter.

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