Friday, February 17, 2017

Haiku--By Ralph Stott--England

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.

5 comments:

  1. very eerie but nicely done best wishes,angelee

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  2. Dear Ralph,
    Thank you for these challenging haiku.
    These were fun to read and to ponder.
    Michael

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  3. 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

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  4. Nice collection, thank you for sharing.

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  5. I 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
    they are on my first whispers post.
    Yancy

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