Blue and Beat | Haiku

Poetry 1 Minute

We go from the blue light-soused night to the bright sunshine in a couple of haiku…

Blue light spilling out onto a laptop keyboard

Blue

Blue light spilling on-

to keyboards, duvets, curtains –

invasive, urgent.

A hand holding an ice-cream, with melted ice-cream running down the fingers

Beat

Midday sun beating.

Ice-cream running over hands.

Race against the melt.

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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Stories in Golddust Magazine, Literally Stories, Idle Ink, Writer's Egg, CafeLit, McStorytellers, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Flashback Fiction, Down in the Dirt, Close to the Bone, Shooter, Soft Cartel, Fiction Junkies, and Heavenly Flower Publishing

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