Monday, 6 March 2017

Haiku - For International Women's Day


On Sunday, 5th March, International Women’s Day was celebrated at the National Coalmining Museum. Amongst a plethora of events the resident poetry group, Coalshed Poets, invited attendees to pen a haiku.

It’s scary the unknown,
How do we look forward in hope?
Present in turmoil!
Anon

Only source of light,
It’s precious, lives depend on it
Down this deep, black hole.
Anon

Out in drizzling rain,
Almost like coal mining is a game
Against society’s gain.
Moira

Cold, wet March morning
Gathering to celebrate
Women and the mines
Tim Fellows

Driving here today
Windscreen wipers stopped working
Feeling very stressed!
Sheila Bradford.

Damp and wet
Many memories
Let’s celebrate
Richard Opasiak

On a wet March day
We women came to Caphouse
For songs and poems
Jane Loe

Cycling alone
To the end of the Pennines.
Drink? Toilet? Or both?

Clare Furness

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