first encounter
a glasswing enters
our renku
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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
Beautiful! Thank you for this.
Thank you, Jessica. It really is a beautiful creature and I'm delighted I discovered it – it is so fitting that it is through a special renku on The Haiku Foundation and thanks to Karen Cesar's verse. :)
Marion, I love this haiku and the memory of that lovely and magical butterfly when it appeared in the Snow Renku. It was just so perfect–and is your poem. Beautiful work. :)
Oh, thank you, Mary! I remember looking up 'glasswing' when I spotted it in Karen's verse and gasping when I saw the photograph. We don't have many butterfly varieties here in Northern Ireland and I found the glasswing so exquisite.
Marion, quite the precise attribute to the haiku, Renku or not. Glass wing. Jan in Texas
Seriously, Jan, I couldn't believe something so delicately exquisite existed! Thank you.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=glasswing&am…
Thanks, Jan! Do you have these butterflies in Texas? :)
marion
Such a nifty verse Marion_!
__ We have no -glasswings- here, but because of your thought, my imagination has certainly begun to flow beyond the research needed to answer my question. What is a glasswing? Grand!
young bloom
seen through this glasswing
a portrait
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Lovely! Thank you, magyar.
marion
Beautiful!
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This glasswing chose a perfect entry
The ceremony was creation
The eyes were elite
Thank you for your comment – and for your ku, Mojde! :)
marion