Friday, October 31, 2014

Street Man

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Wind-sharpened, rain-carved, frost-forged face.   Glacier-blue,   mica-bright, tarn-deep eyes.    Water-fall, mount...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Loughcrew

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 Loughcrew, Co Meath   While Newgrange understandably draws  thousands of tourists from Dublin, I would highly recommend a one-day cir...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Chomsky at the U.N.

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If political systems weren't, somehow, above the law; there would be a lot of politicians completing their circles in prison yards. No...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Linda Tirado

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So here we are. “The richest one percent of the world’s population now controls 48.2 percent of global wealth, up from 46 percent last yea...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Final Breath

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Final Breath       in memory of  Pearse Hutchinson In that last moment your breath halted in your mouth; the air teetered on  your t...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

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 ...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Reading, but not seeing

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This Banksy mural was in the news this week after the local council at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex had it removed because of  “offensive and r...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Some tips for writing poetry

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I have amassed a sizable collection of notes and files from various workshops/creative writing classes I've given. Here are five tip...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Death and the Student

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My grandmother and I were  the best of friends. However when her final illness dragged on, I, a student at the time, didn't have the ti...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Private Companies Looking After Us?

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I clearly remember the politicians stating that speed cameras would be located at accident-prone locations on the roads; their function bein...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The brink

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Once the wrong word said, I’m gone crazy ─ my smile snapped; her ribbons & wheel & steel in my head whirring, whirlicue; ...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Spiritual Growth

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Women, meat, all jaws, Hughie feared; Church-fed fear. Pruned Hughie rattling inside himself, no rattling outside, but bloated s...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Old Houses, Children Gone

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A Stranger In The Townland. In Autumn the farmhouse with the sun-folded field beneath its chin, traps the daylight in its spectacles,...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Pre-digital childhood

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Remembering a pre-digital childhood; the, now, quaint pleasures of Autumn: orchards weighed down with ripe apples........ ripe for robbing, ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

from Above Ground, Below Ground

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The  series of  poems for my collaboration with artist Elaine Leigh, Above Ground Below Ground, is getting its  final brush up. This poem...