Steadfast and Steel | Haiku

Matthew J. Richardson Poetry Aug 31, 2025Aug 29, 2025 1 Minute

We’re reaching up with a couple of high-rise haiku…

A wide shot of three high-rises in the east end of Glasgow. It is the gloaming, and some of the flats' lights are on. Underneath the flats, a blurred representation of city life is seen.

Steadfast

Steadfast through years of

love and loss, heartbreak and hope.

Warm homesteads, piled high.

A lonely radio tower with a red light on top, nestled amongst barren, lonely hills. The time of day is early evening.

Steel

A steel, blinking crown,

wind-threaded and lonely, and

reaching, reaching out.

Thanks for reading folks. Recent short stories include ‘The Silver-Lined Ridge‘ and ‘A Shadow World‘.

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 View all posts by Matthew J. Richardson

Published Aug 31, 2025Aug 29, 2025