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Isabelle Prondzynski, b. Co. Westmeath

grey day again

blue grape hyacinth

grows grey too

dust on dust

where trees will later grow

Ash Wednesday

fog in the city

now I cannot see

those I do not know

Cemetery Sunday –

families reunite

around their graves

cloud passes –

sunshine advances

along the path

summer evening balm,

sleeping through rain in the night –

first chestnuts falling

family grave –

since this Sunday last year

Dad has joined Mum

howling gales –

the kitchen door opened

invisibly

Christmas tree

among sweets and tinsel

a spider's web

sunday –

tea and a read

in silence

One of the winning haiku in the "Tea and Haiku" Competition, France, 2007

© Isabelle Prondzynski, 2006, 2007

Maureen Purcell, Co. Louth

sitting by the fire

light reflecting

wisened hands

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

raindrops falling

on parched earth -

reading "Great Expectations"

Alan Reid, b. Belfast

calm evening

the midsummer's lake

watched by a heron

© Alan Reid, 2007

Mark Roper, Co. Kilkenny

Miraculous wound,

the roses that still flower

where a house once was

The beat of my heart

going, in the silence,

its own way

A squashed crow’s wing

lifts and waves

in the wake of a passing car

First published in Whereabouts, Abbey Press/Peterloo, 2005

Gráinne Roche, Co. Louth

red umbrellas

inside out in the wind

poppies gathering rain

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

Suzanne Ryan, Dublin

weaving through branches

to the ground,

rain