Haiku on the Move

Valentine's night:
a Duracell battery
rolls along the bus floor

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Rush hour traffic
a boy on the bus
reading "On The Road"

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Sunny May morning
under a black woolly hat
he scratches his scalp

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Summer evening
mist over Sandymount strand
- missing seeing Howth

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Approaching Limerick
baby's bibs on a washing line
then, gravestones…

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Biography

Maeve O'Sullivan was born in Dublin in 1963 and continues to live and work there. She lectures in journalism and PR writing at Rathmines College and also works as a freelance journalist, including a fortnightly literary column in the freesheet "The Event Guide" (www.eventguide.ie).

She has had several poems and haiku published in a number of Irish and UK journals including Force 10, Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society), Haiku Spirit, The New Haiku, Electric Acorn, InCognito, Women's Work and The Stinging Fly.

Maeve was the first prize-winner in the 1999 Listowel Writer's Week Poetry Competition (for a single poem) and received a runner-up prize in the 2002 Brendan Kennelly Poetry Competition. She has participated in a number of public poetry readings and also conducts workshops in haiku poetry with children and adults.