Irish Haiku Society |

Patrick Chapman, Dublin

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

Bridie Conway, Co. Louth

September sun

warming the garden –

bees hum





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




© Bridie Conway, 2007

Louise Couper, Co. Westmeath

dead hen in the yard –

hawthorn berries

glow red

© Louise Couper, 2007

Sean Donegan, Galway

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)

© Sean Donegan, 2001

Oliver Dunne, Dublin

Blackbird –

with yellow nib

and ink

Young women wear

peaked caps –

sun in my eyes

Stephen Farren, b. Co. Derry

the fragrant orange

continuing to tarry

upon washed fingers

playing on water

almost touchable

sunlight

east wind –

smoke wrinkles

blue sky

William Gibb Forsyth (Dublin)

storm clouds –

seaweed sways

as the seal passes

First published in Shamrock Haiku Journal No 5 (2008)