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Sharon Burrell, Co. Dublin

chilly morning –

geese in formation

over the Dart line

evening thunderstorm

housemartins nesting

in our balcony

depth of winter –

a train’s headlights glowing

in the half-light

(first published in Shamrock Haiku Journal No 6, 2008)

© Sharon Burrell, 2008

Debutante flowers,

red and white skirts hitched up,

waiting for a bee

Turbains d’Aladdin

promise treasure when you rub –

all that you can eat

Summer flowers die –

distilled into a droplet,

aphrodisiac

Raindrop on a wing –

a plant, denied full measure,

blossoms anyway

(First published: The Select Six website, 2007)

© Patrick Chapman, 2006, 2007

September sun

warming the garden –

bees hum





First published in The Quilt, an anthology of writing in Louth




© Bridie Conway, 2007

dead hen in the yard –

hawthorn berries

glow red

sinking in the bog,

the roof of a rusting car...

fragile fontanelle

(first published in Time Haiku, London, Autumn 2001)

children's playground

with its solitary swing

measuring time

(first published in Time Haiku, London, Summer 2001)