Ten Haiku by R.C. Thomas

 

Haiku:

 

the old ways of rocks

eelgrass limpets

cling to their past

 

 

shutting down for the night

streetlights dim

for the skunk

 

 

porcupine season—

a thinning spruce

grows new twigs

 

 

drought

on the horizon

longhorns licking up dew

 

 

volcano

rabbit 

on

the

verge

of

historic

ash

 

 

full moon crossing

free-tailed bats

leave night in a cave

 

 

high ambitions…

chinstrap penguins

build upon their nest

 

 

hiding

glass sponge skeletons—

closet sea

 

 

life in the brinicle

winter casts

invertebrates

 

 

blubber markings...

the drop zones

of snow

R.C. Thomas resides in Plymouth, UK, with his daughter and a BA in Creative Writing from Plymouth University. His first collection ‘The Strangest Thankyou’ (2012), and pamphlet ‘Zygote Poems’ (2015), were published by Cultured Llama, and his poetry and haiku have appeared in journals internationally. Of creative writing publications, he edited Symmetry Pebbles, co-edited Thief, and was Managing Editor of INK, Plymouth University's creative writing journal. He was also the Creative Writing editor of Tribe. Richard was selected as one of the ‘Top Creative Haiku Authors’ in Europe in 2021; he received joint first place in the Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest 2022, first place in the Third Maya Lyubenova Haiku Contest, and had a ‘Selected Haiku Submission’ in the 13^th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest. His website can be found at www.rcthomasthings.com and you can find him on social media too:

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