choppy Irish Sea failing to dislodge this red starfish poppy bed: the unopened ones as lovely as the blooms
a garden full of sunflowers swaying tall muddy summer frogpond no splash
reject samsara ? this wild summer river this wild path these stone walls hemming him in too- cinnabar caterpillar cloudy afternoon… my sweet pea flowers becoming peas
A Train Hurtles West
morning downpour- we have both dreamt about our mothers lingering in my small bathroom… mum’s perfume Auld Lang Syne in the background- I sign her DNR request mother dying a train hurtles west death cert. incomplete granny’s maiden name
All through the Night: this out of tune version strangely moving
cloudy morning…
her solar-powered plastic flower sways hesitantly
Maeve O’Sullivan works as a media lecturer in the further education sector in Dublin. Her poems and haiku have been widely published and anthologised since the mid-1990s, and she is a former poetry winner at Listowel Writer’s Week. Initial Response, her debut collection of haiku poetry, also from Alba Publishing, was launched in 2011, and was well-received by readers and critics alike. Maeve is a founder member of Haiku Ireland and the Hibernian Poetry Workshop. She also performs at festivals and literary events with the spoken word group The Poetry Divas. Her poem Leaving Vigo was recently nominated for a Forward Prize for a Single Poem by the Limerick-based journal Revival.
A Train Hurtles West by Maeve O’Sullivan was published in 2015 by Alba Publishing