Bio
Máire is Irish and after a lifetime of working in the Financial Sector, she has retired early and has found poetry and art. She loves getting lost in words or paint or both. She is married with adult children and is enjoying this time of life.
Máire Morrissey-Cummins
Winter Shadows
Winter dusk, the sea reflects a crimson sky
as dark shadows streak a lonely beach.
A child's cry carries in the breeze
searching for his dog.
Night envelops him,
a stirring wind stifles his call
folds with the swell of the waves
footprints in the sand
washed out to sea.