We’ve a couple of maritime haiku this Sunday…
Stilled
Iridescent blue,
stilled and sluggish. The peaceful
face of treachery.
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Heat and Hopscotch | Haiku
We’re basking in a stilled, hot summer today in a couple of haiku…
Heat
Peeling under heat –
a once-clad fence bare-wooded
to coming winters.
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We go from the blue light-soused night to the bright sunshine in a couple of haiku…
Blue
Blue light spilling on-
to keyboards, duvets, curtains –
invasive, urgent.
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We’re above and below ground with a couple of Sunday haiku…
Feathered
Trembling buttercups
and feathered dandelions –
a lawn left to grow.
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Summer takes two different forms in this week’s haiku…
Summer
Retreating into
shadowed corries and high crags –
summer snow, fleeing.
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From indoors to outside in a couple of haiku…
Peripheral
Harsh blue light spilling
across finger-faded keys.
Peripheral, dimmed.
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It’s sunny in Scotland at the moment. Two haiku to match…
Sun
Asphalt shimmering
underneath an apex sun.
Air and concrete merge.
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Vandals and vanity today in a couple of haiku…
Fairway
Mulchy eruptions
Pockmarking fairways and lawns –
Velvet-nosed vandals.
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Hi folks,
haiku in the half-light today…
Gnarled
Gnarled hazel twisting
In a tortured search for light,
Piercing the canopy.
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Ruined and time-worn buildings is my theme for a couple of haiku today…
Crawl
Roots in the facade.
Years-long crawl across brickword,
Wind-shivered, sun-drenched.
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Matthew Richardson 