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Haiku

Hidden Herald Haiku

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Eros aims at all
on Piccadilly Circus
straight and gay alike

February 8, 2015Mike Gay, Haiku, Human rights, Lesbian, LGBTI, Michael McGuire, Same-sex marriage 32 Comments

Haiku Fugue

grape

My hunger desires
to taste the flesh of firm fruit
on my sensile tongue

Continue reading →

September 6, 2014Mike Allusion, bird, flower, fruit, Haiku, Metaphor, Michael McGuire, Music, Poem, Sex 60 Comments

Seashell Haiku シーシェル俳句

SeashellWidow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Widow picks seashells
She’s in harmony with them
They are both hollow

Their empty homes bare
Bereft of life and substance
Spirit washed away Continue reading →

April 26, 2014Mike beauty, bereft, Haiku, Japanese poetry, Michael McGuire, Micropoetry, Poet, poison, seashells, Short verse, Widow, 俳句 78 Comments

Bridge Keeper

bridge3

Fragile bridge ahead
Leave behind all troubled thoughts
Only dreams may cross Continue reading →

April 12, 2014Mike Dreams, Haiku, Human rights, Japan, Legacy, Love, Michael McGuire, Nobility, Poem, Poet, Sacrifice, Story, Values 42 Comments

Haiku – Sculpture Series

3cIce sculpture will yield
its fifteen minutes of fame
hot in the city Continue reading →

February 15, 2014Mike Arts, fifteen minutes of fame, Haiku, Ice sculpture, Impermanence, Michael McGuire, Micropoetry, Poetry, Short verse, Tiger, William Blake 51 Comments

Russia Haiku

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Revolution failed
Power and wealth for the elite
workers paid in grain Continue reading →

January 25, 2014Mike Autocrat, Current affairs, Gay, Glasnost, Haiku, History, Human rights, Michael McGuire, Oligarch, Perestroika, Pussy Riot, Russia, Sochi, Vladimir Putin 17 Comments

Happy New Yapping

Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_selfie_smallPS

Year of the Selfie
makes it impossible to
photobomb yourself
Continue reading →

December 31, 2013Mike a bit Irish, Bitcoin, Current affairs, English language, Fracking, Haiku, Humor, Humour, Michael McGuire, Poem, Selfie, Twerk, Vocabulary, Writing 28 Comments

PlayStation haiku

ps3

Grand Theft Auto 5

Out today and hindering

Poetic ventures

September 17, 2013Mike Excuses, Gaming, Grand Theft Auto V, Haiku, Michael McGuire, Playstation, Poem, Poetry, Video games 20 Comments

Seamus Heaney RIP

The pen now idle

a way of telling silenced

next Tollund Man dies.

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From furrow fertile

blackberries ripe each August

anniversary Continue reading →

August 30, 2013Mike Aosdána, Arts, Haiku, Harvard, Humanitarian, Ireland, Irish, l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Letters, literature, Michael McGuire, Nobel Laureate, Oxford, Poet, Poetry, Professor, Seamus Heaney, Writer 37 Comments

Hawthorn Haiku

hawthornhaiku

the sun behind the
swaying hawthorn tree contrives
transparent leafglow

its shadow on the
wall conducts an orchestra
of soft woodwind boughs Continue reading →

August 7, 2013Mike A Public Domain GIF image, Haiku, Michael McGuire, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Short verse 46 Comments

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