Haiku: The Hammock

I promised quality control, did I not, dearies?

The sea weaves its tides, 

Under this tropical sun, 

I set my hammock. 

 - Stu. T.H. (November 24, 2023)

Author's Note

Reality is often disappointing (It's bloody cold over here).

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Visually beautiful. Golden sand, palm trees and the gentle incoming tides. You transported me. I imagined myself relaxing in that hammock in the summer sun. Delightful. It is cold here today.

Chris

[Stu. T.H.]

Thank you for visiting, author Chris Shaw. And to add to your comment, it is also cold here on my side unfortunately. Though, perhaps it was the chilling temperature that really got my pen writing. I feel like the Little Match Girl who colored her own vision with tools of imagination, or like Hans Christian Anderson who wished for the betterment of the world through his works, I too wish selfishly for this painstaking cold to flee sooner. Until then, I can only write works to indulge myself.

[Chris Shaw]

Carry on writing. Summer will come round again eventually :))

[Vol]

Stu,
This one really hits me. I'm a Florida boy, away from home these last twenty-five years. I'd lie in the sand if I could be near the sea again.
Vol

[Stu. T.H.]

Thank you for stopping by, author Vol, you can call me Leon.
By chance you are a fellow sea enjoyer? Then it's quite lovely to hear about someone else outside of my social circle also enjoys the sea as much as I, or even more so.
Pardon me if I may appear too intrusive but I took a glance through your gallery of works, many are fascinating works that depict the elegance of waves and the ocean thus I wish to befriend you and perhaps learn more about your fascination with the sea, and maybe it would invoke and relive another passion deep inside of me.
Again, thank you for stopping by.

[Vol]

Leon,
The sea is my long-lost past. I miss her. My first love is poetry.
Vol

[Stu. T.H.]

I see, thank you for responding. Regardless, I am still very intrigued by your tale.

[Vol]

Not much of a tale... My family moved to Pensacola in 1960, I left in 1991... I sold insurance all over the state in the 80s.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

My brother bought a hammock after he returned from Nam he placed it in our family yard came over lounged in sun and shade
Loved it
That was a good while ago

Loved your write
Yes 🙌 good one

[Stu. T.H.]

I had various experiences with hammocks when I was a kid, they're quite enjoyable to use for relaxation.
But did you know from the spiritual East, they have rumours that if you place hammocks under tree shades and leave it there overnight without anyone tending it... ghosts will occupy those hammocks? Oouuuuh ~ Quite scary yes? The tale is old though, but it's still quite an unspoken rule not to leave hammocks unoccupied or set them under tree shades in seclused places. Maybe... I'll write a tale of occult about that.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

I don’t believe in that or umbrellas in houses as bad luck or black cats etc
I just see a hammock under a tree in a garden
Thanks. We all are different makes the world interesting lol

[Stu. T.H.]

Haha ~ Sure, even if they are fiction, they can inspire some interesting tales. And by day's end, that is all that matters.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Yes that’s why I said each to their own go for it