midday heat still ticking abandoned bicycle
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Marion Clarke
Marion Clarke is a poet and visual artist from Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. She has been studying and writing haiku for over a decade and her work features regularly in international journals. Winner of two Sakura awards in the the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Contest, and shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards, Clarke?s poetry is included by invitation in two national collections of haiku from the island of Ireland. A selection of her poetry and artwork is at http://seaviewwarrenpoint.wordpress.com/ View all posts by Marion Clarke
Enjoyed the haiku! :-)
I don't know if this old Queensland roof is still ticking too…
ticking
keeping its own time
the tin roof
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Hobo, march 96; Blithe Spirit Vol. 8 No. 1 (1998 Review); Micropress: best poems Ed. Kate O'Neill, (Micropress NZ 1997); sundog haiku journal: an australian year (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998)
Thanks, Alan. Enjoyed yours too!
marion
a country stop sign
pocked by bee bees
the heat
Nice, Marion!
climax of cicadas-
someone new
in my daydream
Thank you – and how lovely, Dawn!
marion
Lovely Marion :) Maire
Thank you, Maire! :)
Wow, so evocative Marion! Now that I know you are from Ireland I imagine a setting like from the movie "The Quiet Man" – and, it seems to my reading, this poem carries an equally potent charge of sexual energy. I fancy I see a stonewall lane, and in the midday heat a large shady tree in a neighbouring field – the selected site perhaps for a secret rendezvous, hence the hastily abandoned bicycle, its wheel still ticking" around the inner ratchet.
I particularly love that central phrase. To my middle-aged ears, it sounds like an older heart, still beating passionately in the "midday" of life. How delightful!
Strider
Hi Strider – I love the narrative you have created from my abandoned bicycle! Thank you :)
marion
near-midday heat
Intantanously hits you with a vivid and precise image. Wonderful!
Thank you, Robert. :)
marion
Thanks for cogbnitutinr. It’s helped me understand the issues.