In the smallest turn of nature there is a power that is so constant steady part of times wheel. Our life journey often has no constancy, its rhythm gets broken. All about us is rushing. Time seems scarcer and scarcer. Sometimes it seems as if we are cast adrift in life.

Hope is fragile. It needs nurture and calm to steady itself to face the demands of often what is virtual, without substance or grounding and frequently very confusing.

Nature is our anchor, our guide. The divinity that is within us is shared with the natural world all about us. We are often in pain,in darkness, in turmoil, in loneliness and in hopelessness. The smallest change in nature can cast light and hope on our darkness our pain.

I offer you these forty seven haiku that a gleam of light will find you in sorrow, in joy.

I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Kildare County Council Arts Service with an Arts Grant Award 2012 in the writing of this work which is book one of my ongoing work entitled: " Voices On The Platform"