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March 17, 2006

reprise: feeling a little Irish?

Filed under: pre-06-2006 — David Giacalone @ 1:09 am

 


Here are a few haiku and senryu from last year’s

St. Patrick’s Day post:

 

shamrocksSN

 



St. Patrick’s Day

a traffic cop directs

gridlock


 

 

 






spring green

on the scaffold a workman

swinging his feet

 

 


by Pamela Miller Ness,                                                                            

“St. Patrick’s Day” – The Can Collector’s Red Socks (2003), a haiku sequence       

“spring green”  – A New Resonance 2 & frogpond XXII: 3

 

 

 


 


 








the little sake shop
open for business…
spring mountain


 


 

shamPipe

 

 

into the grass
at the shrine, pouring…
new sake

 

 



  Issa

    translated by David G. Lanoue

 

 

 

 





Saints Patrick

and Christopher  —

sharing a drink and a ride

 

 

 

 

 




March 17 —

snow ‘s gone

snakes are back

 


    [March 17, 2005]

                        

 

 

 







St. Paddy’s parade —

at the curb

green and yellow snow

 

   [March 12, 2005]

 

 

pickup g

 

 

 

drawing the
designated driver straw —
st. patrick’s day

 

 

dagosan   

 

2006 Bonus: from Pamela Miller Ness:

 



new kitten


the size


of her heartbeat


 


   Editor’s Choice,  Nisqually Delta Review (Winter/Spring 2006)



                                                                                                                            pickup gf


 

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