Saturday, January 28, 2012

A New Order Please

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As time goes by, as establishments age, their charters/constitutions age and they become more estranged from their constituencies. Organizat...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Free Energy

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Almost,if they'll allow it.

They Gave Me a Chair

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They Gave Me A Chair. I either read about or saw a picture of Simone de Beauvoir sitting on a chair above the grave at Sartre's funeral....
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Launching Poetry Bus 3

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Poetry magazines are precarious ventures at the best of times, so you have to admire and congratulate Peadar O’Donoghue, creator of Poetry B...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Pearse Hutchinson

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On the locker-lid a biscuit-wrapping ............................... torn, waves in a sudden breeze just like a flower. Pearse Hutchinson 20...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Your Crying

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Your crying: The silver streams Of your eyes, The radiant red cheeks, The choking on words, The gullish. Somehow I think of a voice Curling ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Watching Her Watching Films

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Three poems about small, intimate moments near the beginning of a relationship. 1. I watched the film on her face; settled into that landsca...
Friday, January 6, 2012

She Leaves.

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She leaves a country of mountain tops, pencil points in nothing and crosses on current arrows to where the sun shines on a space. Angels loo...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Scarecrows

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Artistic Expression: method of spilling the beans without having to clean up the mess. Scarecrows. We are two scarecrows: rags and string; w...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Painting Poems

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A number of years ago I wrote a series of poems about a painting session. Beside namesake Michael O’Dea and three other artists working at ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Imagining the Emigrant's Sadness

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Coming back from a holiday in Scotland,I got a very strong sense of sadness. It has to do with watching the slow diminishing of first the pe...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Bank Exterior, St Stephen's Green

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This scene goes back a number of years: a down-and-out seeing himself in a bank window,venting self-hatred to its cold but affluent exterior...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Jesus' Blood

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In 1971 Gavin Bryars was working on a film about people living rough in London when some people launched into drunken song. One, who was not...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

The Dance

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The film Heaven's Gate will always stay in my memory for its wonderful dance sequences. Spectacular, exubrant, joyful; not many films ha...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Bringing Misery

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Apropos of the last posting, it seems that we are designed to distance ourselves from emotions that are negative. How else can we view the h...