Ten Haiku/Senryu Poems
single
barrel rising
a whirr of partridge wing
before the fall
desperate people
coming and going
seek coastlines
in the hills
answering himself
a man calls
ancient vanities
scorned in this democracy
an old graveyard
moonlight
branches on the ground
black-etched
brushing wrinkles
from the bedsheets
a cheap hotel
ivory elephants
treading through the dust
glass shelf
again and again
the luminous hands criss-cross
this long night
bellows wheel
sparks dancing
a starry night
the night owl
glides across the cornfield
all ears
Mike
Gallagher is an Irish writer and editor. His prose, poetry, haiku and songs
have been published worldwide. His writing has been translated into Croatian,
Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian and Chinese. He won the Michael Hartnett Viva
Voce competition in 2010 and 2016, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Award in
2011 and won the Desmond O'Grady International Poetry Contest in 2012 and the
Westival Slam in 2019. He won the James Award at the Ballydonoghue Bardic
Festival in 2020 and 2021. In more recent years, he has concentrated on
Japanese short-form poetry and has been named in the top hundred
European Haiku authors in 2019 and 2020 and 2021. Gallagher is a Pushcart
nominee.
His
collection Stick on Stone is published by Revival Press:
http://www.limerickwriterscentre.com/books/stick-on-stone/
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