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Natalie Arkins, Co. Clare

frosty tips of grass

crows' tails

lifted to the sky

(First published in Shamrock No 10, 2009)

Tony Bailie, Co. Down

rain on the window

an unfurling snail plucked

from its thrush-cracked shell

(First published in Shamrock No 10, 2009)

Amanda Bell, Dublin

the midnight path

sparkles with frost –

fox crossing

(First published in Shamrock No 30, 2015)

© Amanda Bell, 2015

Jim Burke, Limerick

kingfisher

gathering the mid-day sun

on its wet feathers

John Oliver Byrne, Co. Wicklow

blackthorn tree –

down the old bog road,

old man with walking stick

walking westward

down the road

my shadow leading

Andrew Caldicott, Wexford

eyeing the moon

from the pipal tree,

a magpie

empty gin bottle

reflecting the flight

of geese

(First published in Shamrock No 10, 2009)

© Andrew Caldicott, 2009

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)

cherry blossom fire

kissing the garden

to sleep

(first published in Shamrock No 10, 2009)

© Patrick Chapman, 2006, 2007

Marion Clarke, Co. Down

mid-morning shadow –

last dewdrop

rolls off leaf

midge haze –

a dragonfly skip jives

with its reflection

low tide at noon

in the dry rock pool

a limpet ticks

beach reading

tiny rainbows dance

on her eyelashes

(First published in Shamrock No 18, 2011)

© Marion Clarke, 2011

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

Sean Costigan, b. Co. KIldare

beads of hail

peppering bonnets

gather round

(First published in Shamrock No 10, 2009)

© Sean Costigan, 2009

Louise Couper, Co. Westmeath

dead hen in the yard –

hawthorn berries

glow red

© Louise Couper, 2007

Marie Coveney, Cork

crows on a bare branch –

ink-laden

brushstrokes

First published in Shamrock No 23, 2012

Kara Craig, Dublin

rushes rise in clumps

from swampy ground –

a swarm of flies

clematis climbs over

the ancient wall –

a tower of pink petals

fronds lay over

tanned railway sleeper –

gardener waters weeds

balmy late-evening

restless child

holds a white bear

snow-capped mountain

in all its splendour –

hillwalker stumbles

wind picks up –

pink petals

under the wipers

birch’s waxy buds –

a magpie collects

a dried twig

Jerm Curtin, b. Co. Cork

snow flickering

through darkness...

a holy candle

Noel Duffy, Dublin

autumn day

the toaster humming

to nothing

honeycomb

honey and darkness stored

for the long winter

(both haiku first published in Shamrock No 16, 2010)