One Poem & Five Haiku by Margaret Kiernan

Western Media Slant-

War broadcasting.

Reporting on Ukraine, the things that take our breath away

Old dialogues, white supreme.

The breaths we take at sunflowers

Sunny faced to the sky.

Chatter on the wire about blue eyes with blond hair

The skin, oh that skin.

Would it matter if the hair is blue, and their eyes are blond?

Why not  allow the story to unfold

Without the bias of skin on skin

Black or brown, white, or pink

Why not?

When we go to Mars, what then. Red blood without a blue vein.

When the Bear meets the Eagle

Will we have Risen?

Haiku

Theme - gorse

Vicious barbs

threaten gentle golden lips

forever encased.

Theme - steps

Shambling along

One eye on the ground swell

Avoids a rut.

Theme - grass

Wriggling toes

Weave a key-board story

Pity it must end.

Theme - water

My father was idle

Viewing the river Platte

Why this image now.

Theme - circles

Drops of rain

Splash concentric shapes

Upon the pavement.

Margaret Kiernan - nominated for Best of the Net in 2021, writes fiction, non-fiction essay, memoir, and poetry. She has had poetry and prose published in e-book, in anthology collections, and literary journals and magazines - including, Black-lion Press, Pendemic.ie journal-C19 collection , archived at University College Dublin, The Blue Nib Lit - Journal, The Write Life Magazine, Unity Global Festival, Vox Galvia at the Galway Advertiser, A New Ulster Literary Press, The Burrow Lit. Journal, Poet-Head.Wordpress.com, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Galway Review and The Irish Canadian Cultural Newsmagazine, New Brunswick.

She writes with Over the Edge, Thursday writing/reading group at Galway Arts Centre, and, Ox Mountain Poets, Sligo. She is listed in the Index of Contemporary Women Poets in Ireland, 2020. She holds several Educational qualifications, Including a Degree in Arts in Humanities, from Sligo IT.

Her background is in Advocacy in Human and Social Rights. Margaret has completed numerous courses and workshops in writing, for prose and poetry.

Margaret has four grown-up children. She lives in Westmeath with her dog Molly. She is a landscape painter. Is into Nature, walking, gardening, music, and heritage. She is working towards a First collection in Poetry.

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