Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Strokestown International Poetry Festival 2024

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From the 3rd to 5th of May poetry lovers will  be in Strokestown along with many of the finest poets around including Rita Ann Higgins, Jane...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Céide Fields

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  These walls, stone calligraphies, almost six thousand years old, predating Sumerian cuneiform, built on the tablet of geologic time; i...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Emi Mahmoud's Powerful Poem On Sudan's Unnoticed Crisis

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  This BBC link, https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-68816523, contains a compelling message and poem from Emi Mahmoud. We need to be c...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

A Gap in the Hedge

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  A gap in the hedge where briars are looping downward under the weight of grape-like clusters of fat juicy blackberries ‒ squelch...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Life Long

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  Life Long Still: my once loved is standing there as though left out in the rain and waiting to be brought in, ever-present, a h...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

An insight into our capability for inhumanity

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   Inured to the inhumanity displayed in times of war, here is a horrific example of the depths we are capable of descending to. Historic it...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Iconic Photographs

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Miley twerks, Marilyn gathering in her dress, a galaxy of stars gathered around Bradley, a sailor kisses a woman in Times Square, 5 sol...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Marble

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  Michelangelo might have carved the wrinkles on his forehead, veins on the backs of his hands, the fingers slender in death, knuckles, f...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Days, Pages, Happiness

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  What you’ve never grasped is your days are flying loose, pages in the wind, and you busy about filling them, never catching them. Hap...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

History Lesson

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  All of that twentieth century history went in, piled up; from childhood, it stacked: the cold war, Bay of Pigs, coup d’etats, dictato...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Bloodbath

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Trump's recent 'bloodbath' comment continues his pattern of being incendiary. This (not so delicately embedded in his speech-mak...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Jam

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  Plump juicy blackberries: that’s where the Summer went. Rosy-cheeked apples, damsons: -- energy neither created nor destroy...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Your Young Beauty

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  Young beauty s ettled on your face, extended its wings a moment, then flew. The skin over your bones slackened, took the shap...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Behind the Glass

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This poem has been with me for years in one shape or another. I've posted more than one effort in the  past, but was never convinced. Al...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

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  This needle, my mind balancing on it; its mercury glint a painful ecstasy.