Three Haiku

By James Bates

 

Butterfly Delight

Purple Coneflower

Monarch butterfly alights

Double delightful.

 

Sunlight Dancing

Morning dew sparkles

Tiny droplets glistening

Sunlight dances wildly.

 

Thirst

Springtime misting rain

Tender garden shoots reaching

Thirstily drinking.

 

Jim lives in a small town twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His stories have appeared online in CafeLit, The Writers’ Cafe Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Paragraph Planet, Nailpolish Stories, Ariel Chart, Potato Soup Journal, Literary Yard, Spillwords and The Drabble, and in print publications: A Million Ways, Mused Literary Journal, Gleam Flash Fiction Anthology #2 and The Best of CafeLit 8. You can also check out his blog to see more: www.theviewfromlonglake.wordpress.com.