─ october 2004 ─
Written
with haiku friends
with Guest Kim Richardson (UK)
under the leadership of Jim Norton
on Saturday 16 October and attended by more than 30 people
ISLANDBRIDGE
MEMORIAL PARK
The ginko covered a Liffey walk from
Islandbridge to Chapelizod
and part of the southern end of the
Phoenix Park
picking a leaf
off the inscription
he reads,
'...the autumnal earth'
rose garden
in the rain
scent of wet earth
Kim Richardson
Autumn sun
River as mirror
Walkable
Random red leaves
Monumental parkland
Autumn aesthetic
Autumn buries
Paths with slippy leaves
Twilight cyclists
Neville Keery
a horse grazes
the dew-sodden grass
sky thickens grey
the rain from this leaf
between my fingers
sky brightens
white flames
reflections of gulls
in the river
wet conker
in my closed hand
a single prayer
four ducks a straight line of sky
John W. Sexton
I crane
for a glimpse upstream
towpath grasses
a rower smiles
as the trainer barks -
surface tension
taking a leak -
raindrops whack
the old nettles
brambles snag my leg
a taste of rain-
washed blackberry
autumn glen
noses scent the mist
fallow deer
sudden shower
the last elderberries
a deeper purple
Norman Darlington
taking a leak -
raindrops whack
the old nettles
streall fuail -
lascann uisce na spéire
na sean-neantóga
sudden shower
the last elderberries
a deeper purple
bailc thobann
is corcra fós iad
deireadh na gcaor troim
white flames
reflections of gulls
in the river
lasracha bána
scáth na bhfaoileán
san abhainn
wet conker
in my closed hand
a single prayer
cnó capaill
im ghlac
urnaí aonair
Gabriel Rosenstock
Another monument for WWI.
A great grandfather of mine died in
1914,
and a few more members of my family
died during WWII.
But my grandfather came back
after 6 years as a POW.
WWI Memorial ~
thinking of wars I hold
my son's hand tighter
Rower going upstream
and a bit behind, effortlessly
a swan
Gilles Fabre
brimful
memorial bowls
yet more rain
Jim Norton
still so many blooms
even in mid-October
rose garden
bursting with red berries
close to the stone crucifix
cotoneaster
Liffey rowers
passing me
their coach on his bike
we workshop our haiku
competing with football
and 'Gameboy boy'
Maeve O'Sullivan
haiga: Norman Darlington
Original photo (with permission):
Simon Trezise of
www.savechapelizod.com