Poet Profile

Marilyn Ward

I am a retired social education support worker for adult learning disabilities, married with three children, seven grandchildren and one great grandson.
I live in Scunthorpe Lincolnshire and have been writing poetry for five years. The last four years concentrating on haiku, I have had some success at being published appearing in Plum Tree Tavern, Hedgerow, Frogpond, Poetry- Pea, Freshout Magazine and Cattails.

sheltered from the wind
in granite fissures
coltsfoot                       

the nightingale . . .
how can you photograph
its song                                

summer's end
the whistle of wind
through a bamboo flute

white gardenia
our summers end
too soon

long night
the broken branch
a crow turns into

cranes fly east
taking the mist
over Mount Fuji

Credits:

“sheltered from the wind” - Plum Tree Tavern Oct. 9, 2016; “the nightingale“ - Cattails October issue, 2017; “summer's end“ - Haikuniverse Sept. 6, 2019; “white gardenia“ - Cattails October Issue, 2019; “long night“ - Plum Tree Tavern, Jan. 5, 2020; “cranes fly east“ - Masters of Japanese Prints Exhibition selected from Bristol Museum & Art Gallery’s collection of 500 Japanese woodblock prints (MB4508), March 21, 2020.