Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Leaves in Sunlight

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  Leaves: music and colour; in sunlight they are. On a warm afternoon icicles of air play them; turn white those gre...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Squalls

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  I keep myself up to date, not with what you do but how you are; I read the squalls coming in over the ocean. Like newspaper pri...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Autumn Aria

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  The tree, aria on a pedestal, coloratura. Autumn performance; the wind carries fire.
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Wonders

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  The wind in the wires is making choirs of conversations that would have passed unheard. The child standing on the tarred road hums...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

To The Slaughter House

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 This is a re-edited version of a poem I posted some time back. When asked why I wrote/posted this poem, I was a bit stumped. I am not a veg...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Scale

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  It is mid-afternoon in Dublin; two boys are hammering the shit out of each other; no one else is around; they don’t know just yet, bu...
Monday, November 8, 2021

Small Wonders

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  Photograph by Paul Caponigro What skies beneath our feet, what immensities we trample; how much gentler our step would be if we saw the...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Water

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  Far down, a glimmer of light; down inside the earth, a wonder to our young eyes. We lowered the bucket through the fer...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Western Landscape

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  The clouds are on the fields; limestone walls their arms, and thorns glistening black; white berries of rain are dropping from haws; ...
Friday, October 29, 2021

October Leaves

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  October leaves on the footpath and pond were galaxies, star-shaped maple; colours of evening, hearth colours; of a year whose duti...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Correction

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  Church, state, company, brother/sisterhood ask for loyalty, not to what is right but to their advancement. It is time now for a tho...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

Fall

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  In keeping with the principle of relativity, when the branch gave, she travelled past galaxies, enchanted by their beauty, gently down...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Her Hair

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  Her hair fell, long entwined tresses down the length of her back, down past her knees. Sunlight nested there, in those long ivy t...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

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  All of it, all our care, all our passion, will become, soon enough, just beautiful smoke.
Saturday, October 16, 2021

No Name

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  cross the bridge of your childhood rolling it up as you go keep it over your shoulder ask for directions to the desert ...