Haiku by Anne Curran

Island beauty
- henna adorns
her chest


that midsummer night
reading through
my diary entries


turtledoves
by the park pench
- our easy silence


summer evening
cicada song
drums the night


Christmas pudding
on special -
'tis the season'



Anne Curran is a Hamiltonian and member of a large Catholic family of seven brothers and sisters. She has completed University qualifications and been a teacher for most of her professional life.  She has taught English, communications studies and English as a second language. She has completed a poetry collection titled 'Birds of Paradise'.   In her spare time she enjoys visiting art galleries and
watching films.