Irish Haiku Society

dead pheasant

spread for flight –

maggots celebrate

song in the heather

rising wind in the ribs of

an old piano

© Joan Newmann, 2006

damp meadowsweet –

horses in mist

up to their oxters

caught in the branches

of a dead oak tree,

autumn

© Kate Newmann, 2006

Cuckoo-spit laden

grassblades, heavy in summer:

frothy larval wombs

Silver-white frostwork

sleeping in winter-clad towns:

Yule hibernation

Haiku from ¡Divas! New Irish Women’s Writing publ. by Arlen House

© Nuala Ní Chonchúir, 2006

Puffs of black smoke

waft to the left and right –

fog engraves winter

© Colette Nic Aodha, 2007