By Pauline Hall
Thinking of their faces
beautifying my own
now ready to Zoom.
Eight years old. He’s sure
our clean clever modern world
won’t know plague.
If the churches weren’t sealed
they’d be crowded with empty
-handed grandparents
Seven empty buses
the funeral procession
of a rough sleeper
By the Subway tracks
two mice fighting over a crumb
us in a god’s eye
I never found out
how The Sopranos ends, not
like The World at War.
Published in Cyphers, Stony Thursday. The Cream of the Milk a broadsheet about famous and infamous Irishwomen. I have published two novels: Grounds, and Eoin Doherty and the Fixers .
Beautiful Pauline, wonderful haikus
Powerful Haikus Pauline – enjoyed them.
Great series of images, Pauline, so evocative especially for these times
Fantasic Hikakus. Capturing the times.
Most evocative and an interesting format…and educational for me as I had never heard of Haiku!
Lovely strong haikus. Really evocative of those strange early months of the pandemic.
Pauline,
I enjoyed your insightful evocations of our Covid world – especially 4 and 5.
Lovely, thoughtful haikus, Pauline. The third one is very poignant – an elegy for so much.
Wonderful! The Zoom one really takes my fancy’s
The 8 year old one especially….wow.
Wonderful Haikus. My absolute favourites are numbers 2 and 4.
These are great and capture the mood around Covid. I especially like the fourth haiku.
Enjoyable haikus on a sunny morning! Thank you Pauline.
Fine haiku with a modern feel.
These are brilliant, clever and observant, Pauline. You paint big and true pictures with few words. One, three and four are my favourites.
Pauline Hall Haiku. Excellent, with a real modern ring.