As part of the Good Relations Awards 2023, CAP asked writers to create haiku based on the values of Good Relations. A QR code was placed on the back of each award, linking to written and recorded pieces by poets Anita Gracey, Helena Stuart, Marion Clarke and PJ McCurdie.
goodrelationsawards.com/awards-cap
In addition, CAP wished to highly commend the following writers who participated as part of this process. Example of their haiku are below:
Heather Fleming
I bring her tablets
through pain she reaches and smiles
warm hand touching mine
Florence Heyhoe
dividing the rubbish
into coloured bins
loving the earth
Jane McComb “Walking”
take my arm and walk
I will be your eyes today
guide you from lockdown
John Caulfield
different voices
scattered over fertile soil
bring forth harmony
Kathleen McCracken “Irpin”
on the collapsed bridge
survivors ferry elders,
infants, the unborn
Lucy Beevor
in the steady rain
sharing an umbrella
walking the other home
Therese Kieran “Support Group”
mothers nod,
each one tells the same tale,
with moist eyes, we listen
