Friday, November 27, 2015

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...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Eerie art

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Reflections in puddles and pools can throw reality into the most unexpected compositions of forms and colours. Juxtaposed with the watery me...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Time to Honour Kathleen Lynn

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Suffragist, labour activist and nationalist, Kathleen Florence Lynn lived most of her life in Rathmines, and has been shamefully fo...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Two New Books: Poetry from Gerry Boland, and Pilgrim Heritage in Cork

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Two launchings for your diary. I’m   delighted to be launching Gerry Boland’s new collection of poems, In the Space Between (Arlen House) ...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Who Has Seen the Old Men?

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Poverty makes  old look older.  Clothes become outer skin. Identified by their clothing, faces become unseen. We discount the clothes befo...
Friday, November 13, 2015

A love poem

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I Give You            This tree's dripping fruit to place in your mouth to ripen your tongue.   The water gutterin...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

What Does He See Where I See Only Stone?

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  What does he see where I see only stone? The man is still, his gaze fixed on the ground but that gaze compels you to look agai...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Rag Tree

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A thousand dances for Patrick’s stone eyes:   leg-kicking heel-tapping thigh-slapping; each rag a soul treading thin air.    ...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

A familiar state

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Writer’s Block   Nothing lands on this plain, nothing moves but its seeping emptiness.   Goggled pilot high above this...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

At one with nature

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The reliance of humans on nature has suffered from the rise of modern religion. The disappearance of deities of the earth and our own el...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The Silver River

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    Jacket, shirt and shoes,   his socks and trousers neat on the bank;   a small crowd watching from the bridge.    silver r...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

A carefree lazy time

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Summer Orchard Evening   On an evening when apple was eating the worm, tree grating the sun with some clouds, dusty bird...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Light: Man-made

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Light: Man-made   The lights go out down our street, through the town, country, world;   all that fits so easily inside a head....
Friday, October 9, 2015

Seamus Begley "The Bold Kerryman"

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Here is Annie Laurie from Seamus Begley’s new album, The Bold Kerryman . What a beautiful voice he has. The song is based, in all lik...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Magical Fore

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    This is Fore. It is one of the few places I know where a stone building sits as comfortably into natural surroundings as thoug...