maireMáire Morrissey-Cummins is from Waterford.  After working for many years in the Financial Sector, she lately has found the wonder of poetry and art. She loves to get lost in words and paint. She is a member of the Irish Haiku Society and Haiku Ireland and has been published in Bamboo Dreams, an anthology of Irish Haiku Writers. She has been published by Wordlegs, Bray Arts, Newsfour,Every Day Poets, Your Daily Poem, Senior Times, and many other e-zines and print magazines.

 

 

Weight of Winter

All night long
the bulk of snow
weighed against the house,
the slant and spill of sleet
sliding down the windowpane,
music of the dark.

I burrowed under the duvet
anxious for sleep
and I wondered if my inner struggle
would ever cease.

 

Lakeside Dreams

Winter dusk by the lakeside,
waters gently lap the shore.
A breeze wafts through tall reeds
to dance amid soft mountain shadows.

A cold moon rises
behind a copse of Oak,
rolling across smoky skies.

In the hush of midnight
bare branches reach to the stars,
weaving the falling darkness
into a night of dreams.

 

Crystal Morning

Scots Pine stand tall, frozen
beneath a whale grey sky.
Sleet flies fitful
skipping my window,
a flurry of white
streams crystal tears.

Snow marbles the fields,
the sea icy still
as dawn tiptoes in.

 

Dawn Ripples

January daybreak,
clouds of hydrangea pink ripple the sky,
a rosy quilt warms frosted fields.

Fog blankets the horizon,
the sea, a sheet of steel.

A primrose sun billows bright
behind snow-dusted rooftops
melting a frozen morning
in Greystones.

 

Six Haiku

winter night
stars fold
through waves

sky ablaze
with a frozen sunset
deep winter

mist
descends the mountains
sky torn lake

castle ruin
propping up the walls
a Buddleia bush

wet winter
raindrops hang
from the washing line

birch tree
leans into its shadow
day lifting