Michael Collins love for Kitty Kiernan is well known, as played by Julia Roberts in the film, Kitty was but the second of the Kiernan girls Michael Collins fell in love with, losing the first, Helen, to a young solicitor Paul McGovern…
He lost her, that he desired,
A love that was not to be,
Her… she married another,
That she love [...]
He Lost Her That He Desired
Michael Collins love for Kitty Kiernan is well known, as played by Julia Roberts in the film, Kitty was but the second of the Kiernan girls Michael Collins fell in love with, losing the first, Helen, to a young solicitor Paul McGovern…
He lost her, that he desired,
A love that was not to be,
Her… she married another,
That she love [...]
On Boycotting the Sean Mac Eoin Statu...
Enda Kenny in Ballinalee at the Sean Mac Eoin statue unveiling
I thought of it, attending…
The unveiling, the Taoiseachs speech,
About a hero we have in common,
Who across the divide does reach.
He fought the war, he made a choice,
Though my folks did not think his choice right,
Having fought the war he had the right to choose,
So again [...]
Naoise’s People
“Naoise Carries a Fleeing Dierdre” Unknown artist. The physical features of Naoise do not fit in with the Celtic stereotype of the time. Are theses the pre-Celtic people? Are the the Cruitin, recently adpated by the Ulster Scots as their forefathers? Or a completely different people? Did they build Newgrange, Naul, the dolmens at [...]
The Wrecking of Ballinamuck
The Village of Ballinamuck in Longford, the chapels spire can be seen which stands on the site of the mud walled church that was saved from the wrecking crew.
In the years before the Famine,
Greedy Lord Lorton, God damn the nyeuck*
For the love of money and hatred of man
Cleared the town of Ballinamuck…
Levelled, all bar six houses and [...]
Walking by Swans at Lough Sallagh
Swans swim on Lough Sallagh at Ballinamuck in Longford
As if applause, a clap clap clap
Echos the evening air
As I walk past spectators
And yet, there’s no-one there.
It is no ghostly apparition
Of which these lands are famed
But mother natures creatures
Wild and free, swans… untamed.
Their wings slap against the surface
As to the [...]
Love Letter from a Dandelion to the B...
The Dandelion and the Butterfly
Butterfly, dancing in the breeze,
You fly, only yourself to please,
Flutter, each boom to tease,
Carry on your dance at your ease.
You kiss each one, each open bloom,
That for you are open, making room,
Alas, I was closed, as if a tomb,
Never to cradle you as if a womb.
And so you flew to the garden where you w [...]
Blog – What Does It All Mean
In website promotion, you keep an eye on what pages are popular, and which ones are not, and measure them against any postings to promote them, and through that you can see both the posts that meet what your readership like, and the mediums that help you meet your readership.
There are many tools for this, and one I use is Feedjit, and also [...]
Farewell the Sun, We Meet on the Morn...
Sunset in Agadir, Morocco
Farewell to the sun, we meet in the morning
When warmth again it shall the earth
Creatures all shall seek solace in or from it,
Father of all on that here have known birth.
Ayyur, she watches over us tonight,
As the cold, it cloaks the darkened land,
When light comes, she shall sleep herself,
As the Sun once again ma [...]
Was I the First at the Pantheon Gaeli...
While visiting the Pantheon, I said out loud in Gaelic, “In anim dhroim”… in the name of Heaven… and I wondered after I spoke those words, was I the first Gaelic to speak there, and pondered on the great antiquity of both our langiuages and cultures, the Gaelic and the Greek.
“In anim Dhroim” , out loud I s [...]
Tears and Tears
Tears and tears of pain on paper,
That rolled, discarded as rubbish, a draft
Signs of a writer writing,
The toil, the sweat, the writers graft,
And it is love, the torment of the heart,
Reason for living, wanting life to end, and when
Tragedy and pain write the best poetry
Poets wish to never write a poem again!
Menhirs of Carnac
The men who built them long are dead
And they are standing still
In ranks, files and cirles
And after our time they’ll be until
Natures movement of the earth
Or the folly of man
Shall undo what they did create
Before writing began
To allow man to design
And therefor to scheme
And schedule a structure
To bring alive a dream
In a time bef [...]
Fighters Not For An Empire Growing
Groups of folk, guarded by laws
Written to benefit them by their own kind
Pillage and plunder, and tear asunder
History and heritage, profits to find.
But there are people, who worship not their God
Who will stand the Graves of the Ancients safe to keep
In the face of pressure of progress and profits
They stand up to the corporates like dogs [...]
Walter Scott and the Pig Herder
All creatures that God made wild
According to their need
Root and burrow, bite and scrape
In order for to feed
It is so with all beasts
The small ones and the big
They take food as they desire
From the lion to the pig.
Walter Scott when visiting a friend
Came upon some bonamhs many
Rooting and rioting all around
Yet an owner there wasnt any
A [...]
The Unusual Suspects – Rhymers ...
Tullamore Rhymers Club audition for cast of the new Hangover film
It was always going to be an unlikely headline line up, and yet it worked so well, as the Rubberbandits rocked the Garden in the Wake of the Tullamore Rhymers Club at the Festival of the Fires in Uisneach in 2013.
Rushing from our set to the garden of the Uisneach Inn, I manag [...]
Jezebel Seductress
She makes false eyes
Dancing fools, alcohol blinded
See against reason.
She casts far their hearts
Unfeeling, she throws herself
Free at her desired.
He sees: takes her
Gives her loving she wants
That is now her bliss.
Tomorrow comes
The music is not playing now
All sober are quiet.
Each to their lives
Return as if it never
The music it play [...]
Can We Help Ourselves If We Lose Fai...
Can we help ourselves if we lose faith?
We, who the evil in the world see,
Small nations being crushed by the great
The guilty often staying free,
Evil capitalism getting stronger,
One workers gain being another’s loss,
The suffering of the hungry and the poor
It seems as if God gives not a toss…
If that was so, how was Hitler ove [...]
No Crusaders They
From country lanes and city streets, in defiance of a clergy who backed the Fascists, many young Irishmen took sides and fought for the Spanish Republic. In the face of Fascism, if Christ was on earth at that time, He too would have fought for the Republic!
No crusaders they were, on holy war…
To spread the word of God and the Good News [...]
I Heard Not
- standing at a Knowth Passage tomb -
I heard not the cries of the Norman child
From the forgotten keep that no longer stands
Slapped by its mother for a reason lost in time
And its pains soothed by another’s hands
I heard not the cries of a mother in childbirth
Heard not the cries of another’s fear
As their fortress came under at [...]
Tolerance Is to Be Practiced by Other...
Words spoken of tolerance
In other lands
Not to be practiced
Here at home.
Its just words spoken
Rules like those
Are for other lands
To follow.
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Hands
On skin, they run, hands warm, voice soft
Relax, enjoy, time it is yours
But beer is dear, and time is money
When you enjoy the company of whores.
Why pay some day, when man can play
And enjoy the passions of a woman new
When time is your own, and beer is cheap
What makes some men such things to do
As seek the services of bordellos
False smil [...]
I Stood And Watched
I stood and watched by a lake
Birds fly overhead
A lone swallow took a swoop
Over graves of the dead
Who for centuries have lain
Their corpses long time rotton
Thier kith and kin dead like them too
All hands long forgotton.
Before me the waters rippled
As fish broke the surface for fly
For the fish beneath to live
The insect above must die.
S [...]
Let Blaze the Flames of Uisneach
Fire at Uisneach 2012
Flames bright burned seven years
On the top of Uisneach Hill
Bealtaine declared for the world
The call it echo’s here still
Though flames burned to embers
Ash now its fuel that flamed strong
Wisps of is smoke like spirits
Linger here, where they belong.
Miracle of fire celebrated
Of life, of heat, growth anew
Of ho [...]
A Friend in Need Can Be Screwed Indee...
Anonymous in Dublin protesting the IMF – EU bailout.
A friend in need can be screwed indeed
From them you can a fortune make
Tell them how their trouble is all their own fault
And advantage of their problems take.
They look on us as the gypsy European state
We sit on the side of the table and for aid beg
When all we do is ask for help l [...]
A Dream Is Held Close To The Heart
A dream is held close to the heart,
And sometimes never shown,
How great a waste when that dream,
Is never acted on or known…
So we think when of the think
Of someones broken dream…
But before those words you say…
See if its what it may seem…
A man had a dream to rule the world,
As indeed had many,
Thankfully due to fo [...]
Poverty Makes All Things Possible
It was easier to fall in love when people were destitute.
- El Habib Louai
Faith in God, help of family,
They had a little home,
Then they had their family,
A world of their own.
Having nothing, anything
In its own way was good,
Everything was possibly…
Everybody could!!!
Faith in God is lesser now,
Family don’t want to know
Th [...]
Blog – Facebook Are Charging &#...
We all got the scare emails, and ignored them… Facebook are charging… blah blah blah. Well now they are, but not for membership, as feared, but to send messages to people outside ones network. Is this the thin end of the wedge this poet asks, and how much is he who gets 70% of his site traffic through Facebook willing to pay?
Its [...]
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus
The words of God, told by man
And written by mere fools
Edited by others who think they can
Refine Gods words in mans schools.
Have faith, we tell you what God said
Clerics to laity decree
Who is good, bad, and to be attacked
Speak not as Jesus, no He
Spoke of love, and to God what is his
And to give to Cesear his due
To meet a strike by offe [...]
Why God Made The World
The multicolours of the sky
And end of day and birth of new
As to the reason of as to why
The world was created, He then knew
It was for its beauty, as seen here
A dawn / dusk sky of purple hue
Against which a tree silhouette does appear
Much fairer sights to see are few.
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Girl in Black, Child on a Swing
Shes young herself, not yet twenty
Or at least she looks so to me
And swings her child upon a swing
And happy looks to be
Sure, she has little and she knows it
But her child and family are around
And in the little that she has
She has the contentment that few have found
The world over – who have much more
And her mother stirs in a pot
S [...]
