first daffodil
forever
the show-off
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Marion Clarke
Runner-up in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2023, Marion Clarke is from Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. She has been studying and writing short form poetry since 2012 and her work features regularly in international journals and anthologies. Winner of three Sakura awards and long and shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards, Marion was invited to judge the San Francisco International Haiku Competition 2022, and to edit the September 2023 issue of the haibun journal Drifting Sands. Further info at http://seaviewwarrenpoint.wordpress.com/ View all posts by Marion Clarke
Ah, yes, some flowers show off, as do some people. What came first, the chicken or the egg, the daffodil or the author? ;-)
I love the edginess behind the beguilingly simple but not so simple haiku.
warm regards,
Alan
Love it!
flowers
just
bloom
child like flowers
the more you tinkle
the more they laugh
? Bidyut prabha
'edginess' :) Clever and effective, Marion. Very nice!
runners high
the daffodils
incandescence
For some reason I am unable to respond to individual posts, so thank you Alan, Hemapriya, Ram, Bidyut, Norman and Dawn. ?
marion