through
the berried holly tree
a mother scolds a child
___________
standing to attention
steel pin through
a poppy petal
___________
above
a scaffolding tower
standing angel
___________
scaling the steps
sounds of
a fiddle
___________
facing the cathedral
an apartments line
of bed linens
___________
Ralph Stott was born in Kent,
England in 1957. He is married and has two daughters. He studied design at the Medway College of
Design in the mid-70's. Expressing ideas through the written/visual media, has
always interested him. Ralph began to dedicate more time to poetry with The
Writers and Poetry Alliance, in particular the 'Stylists' forum, over the last
3 years. He has self published one book called Legends For Lunchtime; a
collection of short stories and has a second book pending called The
Sounding.
very eerie but nicely done best wishes,angelee
ReplyDeleteDear Ralph,
ReplyDeleteThank you for these challenging haiku.
These were fun to read and to ponder.
Michael
thank you for writing, it is appreciated. The compositions inspired in Genoa Italy are a little 'not of this world' or eerie; the nature of medieval cities and their history. Ralph
ReplyDeleteNice collection, thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI like the message in all five of these Haiku Ralph. Your a good writer. I use to write a lot of these, but stopped writing them because there only titile was Haiku. So I envented the Triodyne for these short important messeges which has a title. if your intrested
ReplyDeletethey are on my first whispers post.
Yancy