swans / ealaí

Stephen's Green 

bourgeois swans

and their self-contentment

Faiche Stiabhna 

ealaí búirgéiseacha 

agus a bhféinsástacht

Photo-Haiku: Abbas

Abbas

none to fight?

fight with shadows

to the end

níl céile comhraic agat?

troid le scáileanna

go dtí an deireadh

About his photography Abbas wrote:

My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder. A reflection on the subject precedes it. A meditation on finality follows it, and it is here, during this exalting and fragile moment, that the real photographic writing develops, sequencing the images. For this reason a writer's spirit is necessary to this enterprise. Isn't photography "writing with light"? But with the difference that while the writer possesses his word, the photographer is himself possessed by his photo, by the limit of the real which he must transcend so as not to become its prisoner.

photo haiku

               Haiku: Gabriel Rosenstock

               Photo: Jeffrey Logesky

níl éinne ag éisteacht . . .

kirtan ciúin 

na nduilleog

nobody listening . . .

the silent kirtan

of leaves

                                                  

никой не слуша . . .

тихият киртан

на листата 

                                                                        (Bulgarian version: Iliyana Stoyanova)

κανείς ν' ακούσει . . .

τον σιωπηλό ύμνο

των φύλλων 

                                                                       (Greek version: Sarah Thilykou)

nitko ne sluša. . .

tihi kirtan

lišća

(Croatian version: Tomislav Maretić)

niemand lauscht ... 

dem leisen kirtan 

der blätter

                                                                          (German version: Jürgen Schneider)

Golgatha

Vic Bakin 

a cheannairí an domhain

is Golgatá

atá cruthaithe agaibh!

world leaders

you have created

a Golgotha!

Comhchainteanna /Round table talks

leanfar

leis na comhchainteanna

amárach

round-table talks

scheduled to continue

tomorrow

Pictiúir - Vic Bakin 

Stork /Stoirc

Pictiúir - Vic Bakin 

An Úcráin . . .

tá na stoirc sáite sa chogadh seo

chomh maith

Ukraine . . .

storks caught up in this war

as well

Caroline Skanne

Photo: Caroline Skanne

a mblagaidí beaga

sa dorchadas  . . .

caisearbháin

their little bald heads

in the dark  . . .

dandelions

 

Trøllkonufingur

Ron Rosenstock

díreoidh sí go deo ar a bhfuil as a raon - méar na caillí

it points forever to what's beyond its reach - the witch's finger

pe veci îndreptat înspre dincolo de el — degetul șișcăi Leagan Rómáinise: Olimpia Iacob

Éanlaith

 

éanlaith 

a chailltear

cé a chuimhníonn orthu?

birds

that have died . . .

who remembers them?

Cnoic Shíofra

Ron Rosenstock
nithe nach bhfeictear ag breathnú uathu . . . ag éisteacht . . . Cnoic Shíofra
	the unseen watching . . . listening . . . Sheeffrey Hills

Photo Haiku

Ron Rosenstock
na manaigh bailithe leo . . . glacann an cadhan scíth anseo sa gheimhreadh
	the monks have gone . . . barnacle geese rest here in winter

bus na maidine

 

bus na maidine

níor éirigh an ghrian

in am

Burrow Beach

 

maidin gheal shamhraidh

scagtha ag samhraí

ó bhlianta eile

bright summer morning

filtered by mornings

of other years

Photo Haiku

where is Troy where is Tara only the sun remains	cá bhfuil an Traí cá bhfuil an Teamhair níl fágtha ach an ghrian

Photo Haiku

through this breath the gateway to haiku	tríd an anáil seo an geata chuig haiku