Monday, December 27, 2010

Poetry makes Beautiful Sound

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I suspect "I love you" sounds beautiful in any language when it is whispered by a lover with real passion and feeling. I imagine t...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

The UK and US have financed Central African Wars

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This KPFA Radio News report(21/3/2010)reports the UK and US financing of Central African wars,approx 8 million deaths.That's roughly eq...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Two Favorite Cristmas Poems

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Patrick Kavanagh's Christmas Childhood , so accurate, so evocative of my own christmas childhood: the frost on the north side of a garde...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Flying through Ireland

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I came across these two videos on Youtube. The first, posted by FaoleannOBradaigh, shows footage of Ireland from the air; it is absolutely g...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Remembering My Mother

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December has sad memories for my family. Both my father and mother died in December; my mother five years ago. She was a very down to earth,...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Strange how the world turns

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Strange how the world turns. Empty houses dotted the countryside in the twentieth century. Emigration hollowed out rural Ireland right up to...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

It was the Sixties

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There is suddenly a new feeling and, unlike the sixties, it's not coming here second hand; it's our very own Irish turning and my in...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Length of Eternity

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Studying Geology in U.C.G. eons ago (geologic time),I came across this wonderful evocation of eternity: High up in the north, in the land ca...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Poems to do with Lovers, Loving and Loving no More

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People change, time moves them along,their loves change like trees, like fires, like buildings.Most keep the narratives in their heads or po...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Netherlands American Cemetery

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I was going to write about the Margraten Cemetery after my visit two weeks ago. War is an abomination; but the sight of all those headstones...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

From The Netherlands

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In the Netherlands for a few weeks. It's been warm, unusually warm, mid to late thirties. That's not a complaint. I've enjoyed i...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Armani Stops at our House

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I was sitting opposite this guy one Friday evening. We were both waiting in the lobby of one of the bigger multi-national companies in Dubli...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Cezanne's mountain

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I would love to write a series of poems to accompany Cezanne's many paintings of Mont Sainte Victoire near Aix de Provence. I love the p...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

In Sickness There Was Only You

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Frequently the years knock rough edges off a character. In this instance, an acquaintance was on her deathbed before I got to see the lovabl...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

The Truth

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As much and all as we admire the truth, sometimes we must keep it tethered and locked away. Sometimes it’s just too fearsome a beast.When Ho...
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