Sunday, November 30, 2014

Ending

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  He, who covered my body with snail-trails, whose hands were wrack swept over my skin, kisses on my back a colony of s...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Nothing Learned, No Enlightenment.

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The strength of Goya’s contempt is palpable in his ‘The Disasters of War’ and ‘Los Caprichos’.  The absence of humanity, not just in w...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

In Memory of my Mother

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It's hard to explain why I find it hard to write about my mother. Is there nothing to be said about the love and care she lavished on me...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Angry

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Among the blocks of the establishment a flawless rise bolted your trust;   success was cement, all loose notions were pebble-d...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Leering Masks and Nightmares

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from Felos ainda serra Tonight my sleep was restless. I could not stand: undulating feet. Nor clutch my mother’s face: tidal. Nor ...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

David Bowie's new video

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Now this I like. I don't often do music promotion, but 'Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)', the new single from David Bowie's up...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Did you dress up for Halloween

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  My answer is   always no. It must go back to my childhood, maybe Halloween scares; I’ve never been fond of fancy dress and masks. They...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The Language of Love: Tips from Old Masters

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It’s fair to say they don’t write poems like they used to, love poems in particular. The days of unfazed openness in regard to sexuality a...
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...