It’s nippy in the west of Scotland – this may have influenced my haiku this week…
Pastel
Pastel cirrus trails –
Memories of summer, a
Vapour trail backwards.
Continue reading “Pastel and Prowl | Haiku”Pastel and Prowl | Haiku
Tag: Poetry
Bark and Brine | Haiku
From shady wood to windswept coast – a couple of Haiku for this Sunday…
Bark
From slow-pulsing roots
Up bark-scarred trunks, into a
Cold, mosaic sky.
Continue reading “Bark and Brine | Haiku”Storm and Song | Haiku
What appears to have been the Scottish ‘summer’ is now apparently at an end. The first of what I imagine will be plenty of Autumn haiku are below…
Storm
Violent spatter
Against a square of slate sky.
Bulbous autumn storms.
Song
An empty grate, yet
That smell of red embers, of
Songs sung, lilted verse.
*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of David Wagner and Peakpx. My recent short stories include ‘Rendered Soft‘ and ‘Across the Glassine‘.
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.
Lull and Long | Haiku
Two haiku for a close, claustrophobic summer day…
Lull
That summer lull, of
Heavy scents, stultifying
Heat and low-run streams.
Continue reading “Lull and Long | Haiku”Breezeless and Bobbing | Haiku
There has been a stultifying heat this week in Scotland; it has been responsible for the following haiku…
Breezeless
Footling summer hum
Of airborne things, of breezeless,
Pollen-heavy heat.
Continue reading “Breezeless and Bobbing | Haiku”Buttercup and Broil | Haiku
Big skies and crowded lawns today, with a couple of haiku…
Buttercup
Sun-waxed buttercup,
Deep amidst the heaving grass.
Summer peering through.
Broil
Cumulonimbus
Banked broad, far-flung cirrus. A
Broiling troposphere.
*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of Flickr and Caribb. My recent short stories include ‘Rendered Soft‘ and ‘Eyes Wide‘.
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.
Grand and Green | Haiku
We’re well into spring here in Scotland. As such, a couple of haiku to match…
Grand
From the frosted ground
Under winter’s last cold breaths,
Bluebells spring, clustered.
Continue reading “Grand and Green | Haiku”Brush and Burgeon | Haiku
The first tentative tendrils of spring are here, as are a couple of haiku themed as such…
Brush
That smell, of finger-
Brushed grass, of sun-touched clover,
Of summer coming.
Continue reading “Brush and Burgeon | Haiku”Air and Angle | Haiku
It’s a still day, shrouded in mist here in the west of Scotland. Haikus as follows:
Air
A stillness. Air hangs
Wreathed and ribboned, damp in the
Gloaming, darkling eve.
Continue reading “Air and Angle | Haiku”Deep and Doused | Haiku
We’re into the depths of winter with some haiku this Sunday morning…
Deep
A new year tundra.
Tree, roots locked and wind-shivered.
Life sits deep within.
Doused
Flame-gnawed tree limbs and
Cinders nudged in night breezes.
Night-doused and dawn-brushed.
*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of Circe Denyer and Daniel Smith. My recent short stories include ‘The Young Man from Number Twenty-Seven‘ and ‘Plausible Deniability‘.
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.
Matthew Richardson 