Dubliner Maeve O’Sullivan’s poetry and haiku have been widely published, anthologized, and awarded. She is the author of four collections from Alba Publishing (UK): Initial Response (2011), Vocal Chords (2014), A Train Hurtles West (2015), and Elsewhere (forthcoming in November 2017). Maeve is a founder member of Haiku Ireland and the Hibernian Poetry Workshop. @writefromwithin
The Wild Atlantic Way
After a Corrib dip
ducklings snuggle into mother –
each other
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Eyre Square a seagull eyes up my tuna sandwich
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Jungle Café a robin pecks at my cake crumbs
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Just past Mayo’s fjord newly shorn sheep
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We hear them then see them Westport swifts
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Forecast wrong again swans on the Garavogue
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Free jazz gig I make this fizzy shandy last
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Moisture-laden clouds
over Roscommon fields –
dry stone walls
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The rain that’s held off
comes hurtling down –
Queen Maeve’s grave
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