Stump and Slow | Haiku

Poetry 1 Minute

We’re in the temperate forest today with a couple of haiku…

A detailed picture of an old tree stump in a temperate forest. The old wood has been overtaken with moss, lichen, and mould.

Stump

Wooden battlefield

upon which lichen, moss, mould

encroach – slow foray.

A detailed image of a powerful waterfall crashing onto smooth, eroded rock.

Slow

A pressing thumb of

river, piledriven onto

rock, yielding slowly.

Thanks for reading folks. Recent short stories include ‘Shift‘ and ‘Picking your Mark‘.

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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