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Poetry by Irish poet Michael O'Dea. (poems © Michael O’Dea, Dedalus Press, Amastra-n-Galar, Lapwing Publications)

Monday, January 29, 2024

I would like to recreate the earth so

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  we may throw snowballs beneath showers of cherry blossoms; put speakers by the pond to waltz across the water-lily pads; strip off and s...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Wanting

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  We sit here running open-mouth aggression; rolls of flesh ugly, back alley tongue-out desiring; dung-drain fingering, cor...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

I think love infinite

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  I think love infinite: stretching back to no beginning onward to no end. Having the most complete happiness life can offer makes...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

The Pleasure

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                      You                                                          video                                             ...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Songlines

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  We sing the landscape, ourselves in it as we are, have been and will. We sing in every language since no race owns it and we sing of al...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Cannon Fodder

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  Mired in the contradictory propaganda of enemies, the stultified masses become the pawns of presidents and governments, who, like medi...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Becoming

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  Carving, relentlessly carving; the days sculpting, long past physical peak, my most essential self from the imposed, simulated, protoc...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

When I have nothing to say

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  When I have nothing to say, to write; I imagine a white expanse, a space to be filled; it always forms a rectangle, a page in fact. ...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Rossnowlagh, Christmas Eve

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  The ferocity of the ocean dissipating on the beach; its heaving waves falling flat and disappearing so I am walking along the edge of ...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Life at its most horrific

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  A truck over-loaded with pigs reversed to the abattoir door. The men dropped the ramp, opened the tailgate but the pigs stampeded awa...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Travels

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  Sun nested on the water, Himalayan cumulus above the horizon, a stratus sea, a silver road to the moon; sky and earth mimic each othe...
Monday, December 11, 2023

A Thought on Religious Belief in This Time of War

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  i.  I do not sow a seed to have seedling or sapling wrenched from the earth. Those welcome in my fields celebrate the success of my crop...
Monday, December 4, 2023

All is Flow

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A Chagall view of life All is Flow In here, there is no one God, no solidity nor weight; all is flow. Towns, buildings, steeples are...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Our Finest Belonging

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 An edited version of a poem I wrote in 2021 inspired by a Sorolla painting of wife and daughters lying in the grass.  As we lay there, ou...
Friday, November 24, 2023

We Lovers

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  Our colours are bells; we, lovers, live forever; defy perspective; grow from each other into each other; no beginnings nor ends but...
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