Tag Archives: Ireland

Daily Haiku: June 28, 2022

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

the pier wall warm against my bare calves – June sunset by Maeve O’Sullivan (Ireland), Author Wasp on the Prayer Flag http://www.maeveosullivan.com

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Poetry by Roberta Beary

Posted on April 2, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

57 VARIETIES it’s not the worst thing she’s ever done. it’s not one of her better moments either. she lists her reasons. but i don’t hear them. i don’t have to. i know for her the switch is off. the … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 9, 2022

Posted on January 8, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

winter morningmom names the plump robinroberta   by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA) failed haiku, Winter Issue, 73, January 2022

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Daily Haiku Special: Oct. 26, 2021, with Roberta Beary

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

Robert Beary, longtime haiku author and editor, and frequent contributor to this blog, has a new book out, One Breath, that is a unique offering among haiga collections. It is an original  project that will spur readers and poets to … Continue reading →

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Free Verse by Guy Stephenson

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

Veldtschoen A big fat sonorous word, it intrigued my ten year old mind. The bumpy leather, the clumpy soles the ring of the heels on our flagged kitchen floor. The very impressive weight of them and knowing how much they … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 17, 2020

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

a butterfly rests  on a tender blossom how intense the refracted light   by Guy Stephenson (Ireland) (In homage to Bashō)

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Prose Poem by Mike Gallagher

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

The Clonmel Set Benny is subtle. Stray notes skip in and out of aural focus like fleeting shafts of light on a driven avenue. Only gradually do you become aware of a pattern as he moves off the lower register … Continue reading →

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Free Verse by Marion Clarke

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Imprints     I am about to rearrange the cushions, but notice they are as you left them, one on top of the other, nest-like, footstool pad indented, as if your feet still rest there.     I know that … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 28, 2020

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

riptide unable to help myself . . . by Marion Clarke (Northern Ireland) tinywords, 13:1, March 2013

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 22, 2020–A Haiku Sequence by Roberta Beary

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Charlotte Digregorio

Shaking the Snow Globe    new time zone snow fills the palm of st francis   frozen windowsill seashells from another life     blizzard bleak house opens to page one     icicles melting down the wishing well     … Continue reading →

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