Haiku by Mike Gallagher
creaking trees
the silent decent
of leaves
badger and I
on the prowl
night owls
bogland
beyond the stunted birch
windblown decades
the river
running into itself
a black pool
two seagulls
flapping into the calm
before the storm
each day ending
in its own darkness
each night begins
a mallard
the blue-green water
folding into itself
dusk
dark beeches inking
the skyline
frogspawn
the future of the planet
somehow surer now
the climate debate
fierce and destructive
nature fights back
Bio:
Mike Gallagher is an Irish writer whose poetry, haiku and songs have been published worldwide. His writing has been translated into Croatian, Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian and Chinese. He won the Michael Hartnett Viva Voce competition in 2010 and 2016, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Award in 2011 and won the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Contest in 2012 and Westival Slam in 2019. He won the James Award at the Ballydonoghue Bardic Festival in 2020 and 2021. In more recent years, he has concentrated on Japanese short-form poetry and has been named in the top hundred European Haiku authors in 2019 and 2020 and 2021. He is a Pushcart nominee. His collection Stick on Stone is published by Revival Press.
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