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Friday, December 23, 2016

Never Dreaming of There Because

Here

is where I am.

Always here,

wherever.

Happy Christmas.

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To The Slaughter House

This is a re-edited version of a poem I posted some time back. When asked why I wrote/posted this poem, I was a bit stumped. I am not a veg...

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2 Poems

Saturated thinly or Spots.

She said
you're a poet;
like a bird
dragging its deadweight body
across the desert,
composing lines
to limp by.

I've a polka dot brain
often,
but at least you can
dive into the dark ones,
wear
shades on the light.

My head is twisted,
it makes direction difficult;
I'm fit for a leash.

Interference.

A fish is dreaming,
elbow deep.

With my fingertip
I draw a herring-bone
across his heaven;
he bolts.

Now the lake dreams,
empty like a canyon.

Turn Your Head

Turn Your Head (Dedalus Press, 2005)

Sunfire

Sunfire *(Dedalus Press, 1997)

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Allingham Festival book launch for 'The Sound of Water Searching'
alone
alzeimers
alzheimers
Amastra-N-Galar
AMASTRA-N-GALLAR
America's response
an abuse of religious practices
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
ancient Irish rituals for revenge and justice
ancient understanding of ecology
Andrew Wyatt
Andrew Wyeth
Anglicistion of Irish placenames
animal rights
animation
animation in poetry
Anne Marie McGowan
anti-cruelty
anti-violence
anti-war
anti-war poem
anti-war poetry
anti-war speech
aos sí
Apollo
Appalachians
Appalacian poet
April
Aran Islands
archaeological sites in Ireland
Ardmore
Armani
art
art and poetry
Art in Reflections
artist
Artur Widak
Ashkenazy
Athy
atrocity
attitude to difference
attitude to people with physical disability
audio
Austin Clarke
Autumn
Autumn leaves
Autumn poem
Avant Appal(achia)
AvantAppal(achia)
ave maria
Backslider
bacon
Baile Dhubh Loch
Ballaghaderreen
Ballindoon priory
Ballyshannon
Ballyshannon Literary event
banking collapse
Banksy
Banned ad
Baraka
barbarity
barbarity of war
Barcelona
Barcelona v Athletico Bilbao
Barnesmore
Barnesmore Gap
Basho
Basic Human Right
basic PR tips for political parties
BBC Folk Awards
BBC Survival
beautiful abbey in west of Ireland
beautiful sight
beautiful stream
Beauty and youth
beauty of trees
beauty of wild flowers
Bedeque Street
Biddy's
Billy Collins
Bio-energy
birch trees
bird migration
Bithia M Croker
Black Head
Black men ski
black mood and beauty
bliss
Bloodaxe Books
bloodbath
Bluestacks
Bluestacks Donegal
Bog Hole
bombing
Bombing of Marienkirche
Bon Secours
book launch in November
Book launch in Rathmines
boots
Boris Johnson
Bosch
Boyle
Boyle Arts Festival
Bravery and Resistance
breakdown of relationship
breaking up
Brewel Hill
Brian Michael O’Dea
Brian Eno
Brsncusi
Bruce Springsteen
Budd
Burren
Burren landscape
butterfly poem
caccini
Caetano Veloso
Cailleach
Caillebotte
Call for poets to write
Cambodia
Camden
camera poem
Canal regatta
Canalaphonic Festival
Canalaphonic Music and Cultural Festival
Canalaphonic Music and Culture Festival
Caoimhin MacAoidh
Capatilism
care
care of natural environments
carnaval
Carrowkeel cairns
Carrowmore
Caspar David Friedrich
Cathal Brugha Barracks
catholic childhood fear
Céide Fields
Celebrating Roscommon writers
Cellar Bar
CELT
celtic art
Celtic godess
celtic mythology
Cezanne
Chagall
changing townscape
Chapbook Competition
Charles Dickens
ChatGPT
chatting
Check out Anti-Slavery International
chemical warfare
cherish all our sons
child soldiers
child victims
child's dream
child's imagination
childhood
childhood and memories
childhood dream
childhood happiness
childhood imagination
childhood memories
childhood memory
childhood nights
childhood poem
childhood wonder
childish wonder
children of Lir
Children with guns
Chopin
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A flat major
Christ and Mary
Christ of St John of the Cross
christian beliefs
Christmas memories
Church going
city energy
city life
civilian populations are targeted in war
Claddagh
Claddagh Records
Claire Keegan
Clare
Cliffs of Moher
climate change
Clonmacnoise
Clubs in athmines
Cnoc Mordán
Co Donegal
Co Galway
Co Galway. St Feichín
Co Roscommon
Co Roscommon Literary sites
Co Sligo
Co Wexford
Co. Clare
Collette Nic Aodha"
coming home
commercialisation of environments and wildlife
Commodfication of nature
Community Information Day
confessing into an angry ocean
Connemara
Conor Reynolds
conservation
conservation of environment
Constable
Coolteigue
Cootehall
corporal punishment
corporate control of lives
country child.
country village in County Roscommon
County Clare
County home.
Courbet
Covid 19
Covid deaths
covid-19
Crannóg
Creeslough
Creevykeel Court Tomb
Crespi
Croaghonagh
Crone
crow communicates
Crown of Thorns
Cruachan Aí
cruelty to animals
Cruelty to fish
cruise missiles
crying
cultural
Culture Night 2016
Culture Night 2023 Donegal
Culture Night reading
Culture Night Reading Ballyshannon
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich
Cursing stones
cyborg
cycling holiday
Cyphers
D duck
da Vinci
daffodil poem
Dali
Dancing to Leonard Cohen
David Bowie
David Gilmour
David Thomson
DaVinci
dead
Dead Christ
dead woman n Oxford Street
death
death on Oxford street
Debussy
Decline in wildlife populations
Dedalus Press
Dedalus Press (1997)
Dedalus Press (2003)
Dedalus Press 1997
Dedalus Press 2003.
delusions
dementia
depiction of complete love
depressed
Depression. Depressed
Deserted village
destruction of environment
destruction of environment
destruction of habitats
Destruction of nature
different stages in life
difficult meeting on street
digging potatoes
dilemma meeting achildhood friend
Dirty politics
Diseart Graveyard
displacement of people
do we
Donald Trump
Donatello
Donegal
Donegal Bay
Donegal Bay haiku.
Douglas Hyde
Douglas Hyde Conference 2014
Douglas Hyde Conference 2015
Douglas Hyde Conference 2016
down to earth
Dr Louise Nugent
Dr Richard Scriven
Dream Songs
Dublin
Dublin and Roscommon
Dublin Launch
Dublin poet
Dublin poetry
Dublin Writers Workshop
Dublin"
Dunbrody Abbey
DWW
dying
dying earth
Dylan Thomas
e-texts
Eadweard Muybridge
early christian beliefs and superstitions
early christian mytholgy
early morning start
early movie
ecological disaster
ecology
ecstasy
Eddi Reader
Edinburgh
Eighties
El Classico
Elaine Leigh
emigrant poetry
emigrant's poem
emigrants
emigrating to America
Emigration
emigration from Ireland
Emilio Araúxo
Emily Dickinson
empty house
end of love
Enjoy life
eno
Environment
environmental destruction
environmental protection
erne
eroticism and being free
escape
Escher
estrangement from family
eternal love
eternity
Euirope's response
ever ending war
evergreen plantations
excitement
exhibition of photographs
Exile
experimental
fading memory
Failed love letter
failing syllabi
failures in education
failures in western democracy
fairy lore
fairy mound
fairy mounds
Fairytale of New York
falling in love
family death
family fun
famine
famine photograph
famous Irish diaspora
famous self-portraits
Favourite artwork
Feeling
Feichín
Feichín of Omey
felos
Fenore
Fermata (Artisan House) edited by Vincent Woods and Eva Bourke
Ferrari
fiddler
field names
Figures in Red Boat
film
finality of death
find happiness
Finding happiness
Finney
Finny
first published in Cyphers
First Light
first motion picture
first president of Ireland
First published in Poetry Ireland Review 107 in 2012
First World War
flow becoming fluid
FMX trailers
folklore
Following Hope
fond memories of home
footage of Amazonian tribe
football poetry
For All Mankind
for my mother
for those who are dying for Ukrainian freedom
Fore
Fore. Benedictine Abbey
forgotten memories
Four Courts Dublin
fox
fragile memory
Francis Bacon
Francis Sheehy Skeffington
Free entertainment
free event in Strokestown House
Free historic Walk around Rathmines
free open-air ceilí
free writers' workshops
Frenchpark
Frida Kahlo
from 'Sunfire'
from 'Turn Your Head' (Dedalus Press
from "Turn Your Head"
from Above Ground Below Ground
from Sunfire
from Sunfire (Dedalus Press)
from Sunfire Dedalus Press 1997
from Turn Your Head
Galicia
Galway
Galway Bay
gannet
Garonne
Gaza war
genetics
genocide
Gerhard Richter
Gerry Boland
Glencolmcille
goddess
Goddess of Winter
Goethe
gold mirror
Gorumna
Gospel according to Matthew
goya
graceful beauty
Grand Canal
grandmother
Grandola vila morena
grandparent's love
granny
grieving
growing
Gucci
guitar solos
gun violence
Hag
haibun
haiku
hands
Hanna Greally
Hans Holbein
happiness
happiness in nature
Happy Christmas
happy memory
Harold's Cross"
Hashin
hawthorn
hell
Hello Sunshine
help poverty
help stop starvation
Here I Come”
herrings
Hibernian poets
Hidden Heartlands
High Island
Higher National Diploma in Media (Journalism)
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
historic recording
historical
History
holiday
Holst
Holy well
homeless
honesty
How our memories are hollowed out
how the war began
How time ages faces
https://abovegroundbelowground.wordpress.com/
Hugh Kearns
Human Shadow of Death
I'm enjoying the view over Donegal By while listening to music
Iceland
Ida
imagined monster
Impermanence of life
Importance of preserving heritage
Impressionism
Improving your political image
in hospital
In memory of Geraldine Kenny
in memory of Pearse Hutchinson
In praise of old age
In Rathmines
In the Space Between
Indian Affairs Dept of Brazil
Indoctrination
inhumanity
inhumnan treatment of animals
Inis Meáin
Inis Óirr
Inland Waterways
innccent child victims of war
Innocent civilians are increasing the victims in modern warfare
InRathmines Information Day
institutionalized elderly men
Interference
internal argument
interviews with featured authors
IRA
Ireland's native home-breeding curlew on the verge of extinction
Irish mythology
Irish artist
Irish childhood
Irish countryside
Irish cultural Heritage
Irish education system
irish famine
Irish famine ruins
Irish landscape
Irish landscape and neolithic remains
Irish legend
Irish Literary Revival
Irish lore and legend
Irish music fusion
Irish mythology
irish nature poetry
Irish Neolithic stone-carvings
Irish place-names in the USA
Irish places of interest
Irish poem
Irish Poem of the Year 2016
Irish poet
Irish poet's blog
Irish poet's blog.
irish poetry
Irish poetry magazine
irish poetry.
Irish ruins
Irish saint
Irish soldiers in World War One
Irish superstitions
Irish traditional music
Irish Women in Literature
Irish writers
Irish writings
Iron mountain Literary Festiva
Island Monastery
isolation
Isolation and anguish
it suits us to minimize the discrepancy between us and god
it's later than you think
IVAW
Jacob Blake
James Tate Prize
Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke
jazz
Jesus in the Vatican
Jesus today
jg
Jimi Hendrix
JMW Turner
John Berryman
John Donne
John McGahern
John MinihanThe SHOp
John Singer Sargent
John Waters
José Zeca Alfonso
Joseph Mary Plunkett
July 2016
Kahlo
Kate Slevin Photography
Kathleen Lynn
Kevin Hora
Khmer Rouge death camp
Kila
Kilcar
Kildare
Kilgefin Graveyard
Kilkieran
Killargue holy well
killing innocents
Kilmainham
Kilmore
Kingship
Klimt
Klimt Moment
Knockvicar
Knowth
Knowth Kerbstones
Kodi Mullins
Lakes and Legends Tourism Group
Lamentation over the dead Christ
landscape and light
Lang Lang
language used by crows
Lapwing Publications
lark pie
lark song
Las Meninas
Lau
Leaves of Grass
Leaving by boat
leaving happiness
leaving Ireland
Leaving the planet as we found it
lemur
Leonard Epstein
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Lesende
lessons of history
Li Po
libel cases
lies and dictatorship
life
Lifetime
lighthouses
Limestone lan dscape of western Ireland
Linda Tirado
lios
listening to colour
listening to traditional music in the west of ireland
literary
Literary competition
literary event
lives lived and living
living and dying
Living fluids
living life to the full
Living Planet Report.
lobby members of government
Local Hands Ballyshannon
local history
Loch Con Aortha
London
London underground
loneliness
lonely
Lorcán Mac Mathúna
loss
loss of death
loss of species
lost child
lost friendships
lost heritage
lost love
lost memories
Lough Derravaragh
Lough Eske
Loughcrew
love
love and belonging
love letter
love poem
love poem; irish poetry
Love poems
lovers
loving parents and grandparents
low standards in high places
Lowerymore River
Lubeck
Lucas Cranach
Lumiere
Lynn Saoirse
madness of humanity
Madonna of thne Clouds
Maggie Breheny
Making Music
Man and Nature
Manet
Manipulation of Mr Floyd's murder
Mantegna
Margraten
Martello
Martin Hayes
Martin Hayes playing fiddle
marvel of life
mask wearing and social distancing
Maskers
masterclass
Matthew Gammon
Maumtrasna
May weekend
Mayo
MC Escher
medeval saint
media coverage of human disasters: immoral or not?
medieval tale
meditating on death
meeting across perspex screen
megalithic Art
Megalithic circles
Megalithic remains
Megalithic site Co. Sligo
megalthic stone circle
memories
memories fading
memories Ireland sixties and seventies
memories of home
memory
Memory from 60's Roscommon
memory loss
memory of Annie Connolly
Memory of father
memory of love
memory of my father
Memory poem
Messi
Messi goal
Michael and John O'Dea
Michael O'Dea poems
Michael O'Dea's new collection
Michael Prysner
Michelangeli
Mick O'Dea
mid-sixties
Midland tourist attractions
midland town
midlands poetry
migrant crises at borders
migrants in Europe
Migrants view of Europe
migration
military graveyard
Milton's Paradise Lost
Miltown Malbay
Minding the environment
minihan
Mire
Mixed up Yeats
mo chéad dán trí Gaeilge
modern poetry
modern poetry from Ireland
modern working lives
monastic ruins
Monet
moon poem
Moonlight
mortality
Mother looking after her family; in praise of motherhood
Mother's death
mother's love on mothers day
Mount Rushmore
mountain stream
mountains lost in mist
mourning a death
mourning death
movie poetry
Movies
Moylurg Writers
Mrs Beeton's
Mullingar
Mullingar Scribblers
murmuration of starlings
murmurations
Murvagh
Murvagh Beach
muse
Museo del Prado
Museo Picasso
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
music
music of nature
mustard gas
my father
mysterious misty landscape
myth
myths and legends
natural cyces
natural cycles in narure
Nature
Nature in the city
Nature poem
nature poetry from Ireland
nature recycling
Nature's cycle
neo-surrealist poetry in English
neolithic
Neolithic art
Neolithic Cemetery
neolithic site
Neolithic tombs
Netherlands
new anthology
New collection
new literary and art magazine
new poem
New poetry
new poetry ezine
new single Sue
new writing
Newcastle
Newgrange
Nice atrocity
nightmare
Nighttime terrors
Nikon
no democracy
Norwegian trolls
Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
O'Carolan
O'Dea
O'Sullivan
Obama
October nature
Ogden Nash
Olafur Arnalds
old home movie footage
old ruins
older couple meet during covid crisis
Omey
Omey Co. Galway
Omey Island
ongoing war
online poetry outlet
Opus 47
Oran
orgasm
origin of myths and legends
Oscar Wilde
our garden in Antogher Road
our legacy to future generations
Our self deification
over-elaboration in poetry
Paddy Kavanagh
Pádraig Pearse
pain
painting by Caspar |David Friedrich
Paintings influence poetry
Palm Sunday 1942
Paradise Lost
Parmigianino
passing ot childhood
passing time
Patrick Chapman
Patrick Kavanagh
peace
peace talks
Pearse Hutchinson
Pen2Paper Writers Group
peom from Sunfire (Dedalus Press)
people reflect their landscapes
perfect relationship
perspective
Peter Doig
Peter Kenny
Philip Casey
Philip Coleman
Philomena
Phlip Casey
phonecall
photograph
photographer
photographic exhibition
photographs
photography
photojournalism
physical laws govern teeming life
Picasso
picking berries
Pilgrim heritage in Cork
Pink Floyd
pipe-smoking
Piper's Stones
PIR
Pirelli
Plateaux
Playing with Frost
Plinio Fernandes
Pnomh Penh
poem
Poem for my father
poem from Ireland
poem from Roscommon
poems
poems from Ireland
Poems of desire
poetic imagery
poetics quiz
Poetree
poetry
Poetry and Art
Poetry and prose readings
Poetry and prose workshops
Poetry Archive
Poetry Collection
Poetry Competition
poetry f exile
poetry from Ireland
poetry influences
poetry Irish
Poetry Launch
poetry magazine
poetry of emigration
poetry reading
Poetry Reading Ireland
Poetry Reading in Ballyshannon
poetry source
poetry submissions
poetry tips
poetry workshop
poetry workshops
Poetry writing
pointless bombing
police control
police shootings
politics in Ireland
pollution
portrait
portraiture
Portuguese singer songwriter
postcards
Poverty
power-hungry
PR for political parties and politicians
Prairie Schooner
President Trump
presidential Election
pro-peace
prose and poetry readings
prose workshop
Protection of Amazonian tribes
pub conversation
pub talk
Published in Force 10
Púca
Punch
quarrelling
racism
rag tree
rain and imagination
raindrops after rain
rainy day poem
Ranelagh
Rath
Rathcroghan
Rathgar and Harold's Cross"
Rathmines
Rathmines clubs and Societies
Rathmines College
Rathmines Colllege
Rathmines Community Clubs n Socs information Day
Rathmines Festival
Rathmines Information Day
Rathmines Library
Rathmines Roar
Rathmines Town Hall
Rathmines Writer's Workshop"
raths
Ray Hudson
Ray-bans
Reading and Workshops
reading in Dublin
Reading in Trinity College
Real Cool: Poems to grow up with
realisation
Reasons to visit Ireland
recording
recycling in nature
refugee crisis
refugees in Europe
Regina Carbayo
Religious Belief
remembering
remembering Alan Biddle
remembering her dying
remembering my mother
remembering your face
Remnant of British Empire
remote
resurrection
Revival of Irish language
rhetoric
rich
Richardson
River Erne"
Rloobbie Burns
Robert Browning
Robert Herrick
Roberta Flack
Rolex
Ronad Binge
Roscmmon
Roscommon
Roscommon Anthology
Roscommon Anthology Roscommon town launch
Roscommon artists
Roscommon Arts Centre
Roscommon childhood
Roscommon Co Co
Roscommon County Council
Roscommon County Home
Roscommon Culture Night 2012
Roscommon in rain
Roscommon Library
Roscommon poet
Roscommon scene
Roscommon town 1960s
Roscommon Writers
Roscommon writing award
Rosheim
Ross Donlon
Rossnowlagh
RS Thomas
Rubens
ruined abbey
Ruined monastery
rural depopulation
rural Ireland
rural irish poetry
S|o many peoople I knewand loved have passed on
Sabne Raznik
sadness
sadness in a voice
sadness of loss
Sailing By
Sartre
Saturn devouring his son
savagery
Schiele
school of english
school violence
schooldays
Scottish folk
seagulls in a storm
Seamus Heaney
self-portraits
selling babies
Separation
September 14th
September literary event
sex in poetry
sex in the movies
Shadows from the Pale
Shakespeare
Shannon
shape-shifter
sheep
shoals
Shop
SHOp 31
short poem
short stories
short stories art and poetry
shortcomings of democracy
sick world
Simon O'Donnell
Simone de Beauvoir
Sir Ken Robinson
Skellig Michael
Sláine
Slattery's Pub Rathmines
slavery
Slievemore
Sligo
Slimming for the Beach
Small Beauty
Small glory
small is beautiful
snow silence
societal responsibilities
societies in Rathmines
society
songwriting and poetry
Sorolla
Soundings
Southward
spirit of the land
spy
St Ciarán
St Féchín
St Féchín of Fore
St Feichin
St Feichín
St Féichín
St Mary Bells
St Sebald's miracle
St Sebaldus of Neremberg
St Ultan's Hospital
St Valentines
starling
starlings
starving
Stephen Hawking
Stew
Still Island
still time
Stone Age field system
Stone art
stone circle
Stone Circles
Stone Walls
stop speculation on food ingredients
stories of Dublin
street bombings
Strokestown
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
Strokestown International Poetry Festival Competition
student life
submissions
submissions sought
Sudan
Sugán.
suicide
Summer holidays
Summer in Donegal
sun-filled droplets on trees
Sunfire
sunlight on water
sunlight reflected
Sunny Acre Coolteigue
superstitions and old religious beliefs
surrealist poetry
Survision No.7
sustainable treatment of animals
sustaining the planet
Svithjod
Swallows
Swan Centre
swans
Swans on the canal at Harold's Cross
Syrian war
Tales of Revolution
Tally Koren
Ted
TED talk
Telephone wires
Tennyson
Teresa
The Barracks
The Bold Kerryman
the Burren
the cailleach
the destruction of Gaza
The Disasters of War
The Dog
the face
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
the full life and other titles
The Garden Of Love
The Gloaming
The Green Road from 'Turn Your Head'
the irish curse
The Kiss
The Last Supper
The Odd Couple 3
The passing of life
The Percy French Society"
the photograph
The Pigeons
The Pornographer's Model.
the railway
The River
The Roscommon Anthology
The Siesta
The Sound of Water Searching
the world's your oyster
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Kettle
thoughts on my writing
thoughts poetry poetic
time
time and passing
time and place
Tintoretto
To The Slaughterhouse
Tomas Laidir MacCoisdealbha
Tomita
Tourism in Ireland
town development
Trad session in Grace's
Tradfest
Traditional Irish music. Bodhrán
traditional music comes from the land
traditional music session in Rathmines
Trains
trains analogy for life (again)
travelling
Trim Castle River Walk
Trinity College
triptych
true story
Trump
Trump apprach to corona virus
Trump rallies
Trump re-election campaign
TTIP
Tuam
Tuatha de Danann
Tulsk
Tuol Sleng
Turn Your Head
U.C.G
Ukrainian invasion
uncertainty
undemocratic practices in western politics
Unending Israeli strikes on Palestinian communities
University life
unnatural environment
Unspoiled Ireland
US financed war"
Vermeer-like
victims of war
violence
virtual tour of Dublin; Dublin online
waDublin
Waiting for a melody
walDublin
walk aDublin
walk arDublin
walk aroDublin
walk arouDublin
walk around Dublin
walk aroundDublin
walk arounDublin
walk arounfDublin
walk Dublin
walkDublin
walking on the strand
Walt Whitman exhilarating joyful poetry
Wanderer above the sea of fog
War
war in 2024
War in Gaza
war in Sudan
war poetry
War victim
wDublin
We don't seem to learn
we visited Carrowkeel in a fog
wealth
website for Rathmines
welsh poet
West coast of Ireland
west of Ireland
wet weather
what good is poetry: a love poem
what the artist sees
When all the others were away at Mass
why you fall in love
Wild Atlantic
Wilfred Owen
William Blake
William Douglas
William Wilde
Winter landscape in Donegal
Woodbrook
word-power
Workshop Tips for Poetry Beginners
workshops and readings in Leitrim
world war II
World Wildlife Fund
writer's block
writers group in Mullingar
Writers Groups
writing competition
writing poetry
Yeats Re-jigged
Yesterday
yoga
young and old face
YtelSenda1 youtube channel
Zakir Hussain
Zelensky and Trump argue
Zelensky and Trump fall out
Zelensky Trump disgraceful behavior

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