unable to help myself rip tide
Author: 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/
midday heat still ticking abandoned bicycle
disused road roots resurfacing
familiar tune my children’s voices?above the?mountain stream
chasing shadows we wait on news of her scan
shrieking gull falling from a cliff this fear of flying
after the ceremony gossiping jackdaws
first encounter
a glasswing enters
our renku
final prognosis different clouds on the horizon
on the mend . . .
this long afternoon
stitched by swallows
border attack . . .
lupine seed heads
pop in the heat
cold light another empty bottle promise
beachcombing the detritus of us
first daffodil
forever
the show-off
playground leaves the rattle of hometown ghosts