Marion Clarke

canal bank …

each cherry tree touching

its neighbour

Sakura Award winner in 2012 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Competition
International Category 

storm on the lough

streetlamps on Seaview

lit by sunrise

Highly commended in Irish Haiku Society 2011 international Haiku Competition.
Published in ‘Bamboo Dreams’, the first national anthology of haiku poetry from Ireland

skinny dipping –

one small step to land

on the moon

Winner of Every Day Poets ‘Great Big Little Poems Competition’ 2012

turf in the air

the old man

returns home

inspired by Seamus Heaney’s ‘Digging’

Seamus Heaney – In Memorium, September 2013
Butterfly Dreams, NeverEnding Story, September 2013

midday heat still ticking abandoned bicycle

tinywords 13.2 September 2013

disused road roots resurfacing

tinywords 13.2 September 2013

holiday break up

her cheeks bruised

by the breeze

Burning Bush 2 literary journal, Issue 5 Summer 2013

riptide unable to help myself ...

tinywords 13:1 March 2013

turning tide...

a barnacle waits

on a limpet

Heron's Nest, March 2012

grandma's kitchen . . .

a star-covered teacup

for the gypsy lady

Frogpond, Autumn 2012

another winter . . .

my father’s garden seat

still creaking 

A Hundred Gourds 1:3 June 2012

early dusk . . .

my children’s footsteps

fill the stillness

A Hundred Gourds 1:2 March 2012 

Donegal summer—

sleet ticks off the window pane

then slaps it

A Hundred Gourds 1:1 December 2011

low winter sun

warming up a row

of chimney pots

Notes from the Gean 3:4 

coffee and Danish –

the Mournes dusted

with snow

Irish literary journal, The Linnet’s Wings, Summer 2012