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/

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  1. 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)

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  5. 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

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