Haiku

1.

hearth fire heat

labour of bitter coffee

fulfills its promise

2.

teary june gusts

make dunes ascending glory

unwanted shelter

3.

warm bare flesh

galway’s water is coursing

another neat sigh

4.

strand skeletons

gleaming white gannets dive

into a slate sea

5.

atop mweelrea

in the snow clew bay appears

reward of clouds

6.

an office of men

unsmiling grey solutions

undo silence

7.

seventy per cent

of heaven; this target is

unrealistic

Selected Haiku © 2017 Fergus Deffely