An old, fisherman’s table
Rusted now and all forlorn
‘Gainst the shimmering
Stealing my title from Gilly this morning, but I know she won’t mind. I’m just sharing a last few soothing Algarve images before I return to the real world. If you’ve never met Gilly, you’re in for a treat. Go and say hello!
restlessjo 
Thanks for recommending Gillies site Jo. It’s beautiful!
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She’s a lovely girl 🙂 🙂
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Beautiful Algarve images, Jo. Love your haiku. 🙂
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Thanks, Ad. Just now and again I get poetic 🙂
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Those bridge reflections are marvellous. I love the contrast you’ve captured in your haiku. Many hugs from Warsaw as thaw sets in 9° yesterday according to one report.
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Yay! You’ll get to see the beginnings of Spring before you leave. 🙂 🙂 Wonderful to have you ‘home’ again, Meg!
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J reckons the grass is greening as the snow melts. I went back to my photos of arrival time a year ago to see what is about to happen. On-the-threshold-of-spring hugs.
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Fantastic photos, the first one is absolutely stunning 🙂
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Thanks, Eunice 🙂 When a place looks like that it’s a joy to be able to capture and share it.
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Marvelous, Jo!
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Thanks, sweetheart 🙂
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Loving all the calming blues…and the reflection patterns in the water.
Peta
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It’s just down the road from the spot with the flat calm that you liked, Peta, but this place gets busy in Summer. 🙂
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Oh, lovely!
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And no, not at all, but I pinch a few words here and there. 🙂
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Ah, OK!p
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i rifessi del monte sembrano un candido merletto ricamato dall’cqua! bellissimi i contrasti del bianco e dell’azzurro assoluto”
felice sera , cara
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We’ve had 3 seasons in one day here at home, Annalisa. I have to keep looking at the Algarve to cheer myself up 🙂 🙂 Ciao, bella!
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I think you should have put up a warning “Sunglasses required”. The first image is a dazzler! I have noticed how often your Algarve blue skies are completely devoid of clouds! We’ve had some gorgeous cornflower-blue summer skies this week, but always with clouds around. Never mind, it feels like spring already… 🙂
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I was just saying to Susan that we’ve had a bit of everything today but my connection was interrupted and now t’Internet’s playing silly b’s 🙂 🙂 You know how that feels! We went to Fountain’s Abbey under droopy skies 🙂 Snowdrops out though!
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I do indeed. We have just got yet another new router and touch wood, this seems to be a bit happier! I love the idea of droopy skies 😀
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So soothing. I am right now looking at gray skies and the beginning of rain, so the sun was a pleasant momentary escape. Thanks!
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We’ve been through grey skies and rain, back into sunshine and now… clouds 🙂 🙂 Did somebody mention changeable? We did have a lovely walk today but it wasn’t in the sunny bit!
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I love the blue in the pictures!
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Dazzling, isn’t it? 🙂 🙂
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Lovely haiku to go along with this relic of a table!
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It’s seen better days, Kathe, for sure 🙂 Thank you!
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Yowza! That first photo made me feel as though I was standing right next to the water…stunning! Love the Haiku, Jo.
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Standing in my shoes, Jill 🙂 🙂 Thanks, darlin’.
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Beautiful . . . . . .
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Sending hugs 🙂 🙂
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So lovely and serene Jo.
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That’s how I remember it xx
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Not serene this morning . . .it is glorious this morning but very windy. Think MrB is going to have a bumpy landing in an hour.
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He’ll be home safe by now 🙂 🙂
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He is and the day has got better weatherwise too 😊
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I love the openness of this, how the adjective becomes a noun and thereby floats away into the future. Beautifully written, Jo and thank you for sharing – the stillness of your haiku rests well with me. I’m now off to see your friend, Gilly!
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Thank you very kindly, Annika. Gilly is an absolute sweetheart! She works so you may not get an immediate response. 🙂
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Love that last photo too with the spark of red, deep blues and neutral tones ….. the patterns in the water ……. I feel a painting coming on!
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Good oh! You’d never stop painting if you went to the Algarve. 🙂
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I must go back one day – spent several family holidays there in the late 1960s, early 70s in Lagos.
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The eastern end is totally different, but just as lovely.
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I particularly love the two last lines – metaphorical – allegorical – atmospherical.
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I wasn’t sure about the last one but sometimes it’s better not to tinker with what arrives naturally. 🙂 Thank you!
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Yes, definitely! Although I don’t feel forlorn, I do sometimes feel joyfully rusted beside the shimmering youngsters. 😉
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Me too! 🙂
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😉 ❤
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Love this post – beautiful Haiku – I have saved a link to it on my Poems Page so that I can visit again: https://daffodilwild.wordpress.com/poems/favourites-from-other-poets/
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Thank you very much! I seldom write poetry. Gilly is the expert. Did you go and say hello? 🙂
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Not yet, just savouring your haiku for a while. I’ll pop over later – thank you for the link.
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She has been running them for years. Scroll back through a few. And she’s lovely! 🙂
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Wunderschön…
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Danke, Ernst 🙂 Guten tag!
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Sore hen
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? 🙂
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Jo, that was meant to say Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
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Predictive text??? 🙂
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Yep, hopeless….
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