Monthly archives for July, 2012
Does Kafkas Ghost Today Roam Josefovs...
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Burn them all, the words that I have written
When this, my life, it has come to an end
An earnest request made by Frank Kafka
Solemnly to his good friend.
That man, to spite his genius to him unknown
Thought his written wor [...]
Lines on Kafka
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How come, in a town like this
A man in spirit is so in error
That instead of sweet relaxing dreams
Suffer ones of such terror?
But this town was not always so good
And joy one could not always find
Being of a minority, oppr [...]
Adolf Hitler is Coming to Town
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“Hurry up” they said, “its a problem”
“Tear Mendelssons statue down
For he is a Jew and it will not do
Adolf Hitler is coming to town.
So a soldier was send orders given
And to the roof he went [...]
I Walked the Streets of Prague
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I walked the streets of Prague
In glorious sunshine, time to pass
I intended to, but never got round
To visiting a church, attending mass
But every step that I took
As I toured the city there
To see the glory created by God [...]
Turned Back from Leinster House
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I wished to visit parliament
Its workings for to see
An Irishman, to tour like an American
But it was denied to me.
By an otherwise gorgeous ban-Garda
Who said that a TD
Had to sponsor those who tour
So sponsored Id have to [...]
The Woodcutter
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The woodcutter with sharpened saw
Went to the woods one day
And he liked the timber that others scorned
He ignored what they did say
That the timber was damp and burned slowly
And gave away little heat
Just sapped the ener [...]
No Christ Was He – The Errors o...
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No Christ was he, or even close
But that was not his claim, no he
Just carried the same message to man
Distilled as he saw life to be
The wrongs of churches of his time
Of Orthodox, and his own faith, seen in youth
Led him [...]
Dark Brown Turf
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By hand it was cut, the dark brown turf
Donkey and ass dew it by cart home
Hands hard from work tossed it to the fire
Neath hair that rare e’re saw a comb
Then by machine it was cut, dark turf
Tractor now drew it home [...]
Loudest Voices Cover Up Much
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We must pay for everything
From our homes, to our loaf of bread
Some folk pay for somethings
And that they are great it is said
Some folk pay for nothing
And because of that the who pay for little cry
And we join in its goo [...]
Ode to Mrs O, And All Poets Wives Lik...
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A humersome poem dedicated to the wife of Dublin writer and Poetry Bus founder Peadar O Donoghue!!! Us poets dont take ourselves too seriously all the time, this is releasing my inner McGonagall!!!
Its a womans desire of he [...]
What the Moon Sees from Behind Clouds
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Slurring his words, he speaks to others
Who let on to listen, to be polite
But wish he was anywhere bar here
Resent his ruining of their night…
Grimaces hidden by forced smiles
He sings a song, cant hold a tune
Outsid [...]
Jesus in the Synagogue
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With apostles sat
Jesus in the synagogue
To women walk in
One gives a little
A lot of money given
By the other one
The Question He asks
To the disciples sat there
Which gave most money
They Wise, able to count
Said the ric [...]
Träume von De Valera
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This translation to German from Reinhard F. Hahn
Read the original in Irish
Read the translation in English
Leer nun, die Straße.
Weder Musik noch Sport.
Die jungen Mädchen, die hübschen,
Tanzen nicht.
Tagsüber spielen die [...]
That We May Never Have to Play Dalibo...
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During Vladislav II’s reign knight Ploskovský behaved toward his people in serfdom in a such a cruel way, that peasants did revolt capturing him and forced him to free them from the serfdom.
The peasants asked for ser [...]
A Tale of Two Wolves
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The Germans a story tell
American natives tell one like it as well
Of two wolves that in us dwell
In each and every man
That howl to the sky of our soul
An in our lives each play a role
In their own way make mankind whole
H [...]
A Bugle Played
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A bugle as a warning played
From a watchman in the spire
Allowed a city to defend itself
From attack by Tater fire
An one of the attackers saw
The bugler making the warning call
And with arrow fired pierced his throat
Causi [...]
The Woman Behind the Veil
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She hides behind it as if ashamed
Of the God given beauty she bears
And at other women without it
She in disdain stares
For men are weak, or so its said
And lead them astray it might
So to thwart sin and stay holy
Women kee [...]
Dead Cow on the Line Approaching Pres...
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The train slowed, stopped, all peered out
To see whatever they could
The train stopped upon the line
Where it normally never would
And children, five or six, no older
Frantically waved sticks at crazed cattle
And on the tra [...]
My Father, The Boxer
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He never into a ring stepped
Believing it and Queensbury rules
To be the realm of cowards
And the domain of fools
And no fight was fought for fun
And no fight was fought for sport
A fight was from anger and for honour
For t [...]
God Being Stupid Needs Our Help
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A Jew in the Pinkas synagogue tells a story that the Star of David is not a Jewish one at all but invented by Christians to carve into headstones so that God would know to save only those with crosses on their headstones.
A [...]
Merchants at the Pinkas Synagogue
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They sell their wares on open stands
Trinkets, postcards, and stuff
They are everywhere that I can see
The senses it does rebuff
This place is sacred is it not?
Where the story is told
Of mans inhumanity to man
Not a venue [...]
Sailing Neath the Charles Bridge
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Such history flows beneath this bridge
And all that have walked on it
So many pass its statues walk
And think so little of it.
Germans, Russians and the Slav
Have at times been masters here
And yet none was ever master
So [...]
A Postcard to Her Father Sent
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A postcard she sent from the train as she
To Auschwitz and her death she was brought
Though her parents had their own house and work yet they
To Lety camp they were sent when caught
For the issue was not one of character
A [...]
Radiation Defeated (Haiku)
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Flowers still blossom
Swaying in the warm summer breeze
Radiation defeated.
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Give to Me an Angry Sea
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Give to me an angry sea
When I am old, not strong like now
And at my happiest I will be
Should life, that pleasure to me allow
That I can, upon my lips
Taste the salt of a thundering spray
That breaks rocks, and tosses ship [...]
An Cailín Bocht Marbh
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Katy Ffrench, socialite, died from drugs to a Dianaesque fuss. Two youths in Waterford died from the same, but being working class, no-one remebers their names.
Áileann a bhí a h-aghaidh,
Agus dathúil soiléir a bhí a tón,
B [...]
An Crann sa Ghaoth
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Tá an crann sa ghaoth ag damhsa inniú,
Ag léimt ó dheas go clé,
Ar nós go bhfuil sé ag éisteacht le ceol ag casadh,
Bíonn an crann ag damhsa i rith an lae.
Tá an crann sásta sa samhraidh, sa ghaoth,
Ar nós páistí ag súgrad [...]
No More The Hammer Strikes The Anvil
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Sean Mac Eoins forge in Ballinalee
No more the hammer strikes the anvil
As the blacksmith discussed the news
With the clients from the country
As he hammered on horseshoes
And fixed items of iron
In the furnaces flames
As t [...]
This Land a Piece of our Souls Holds
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Green fields of pasture on which sheep graze
Bordered by sheughs and flowing streams
The lands of my ancestors in olden days
Looking there today it seems
That it is as if never man
Those fields green did ever touch
Yet once [...]
The Excommunication of St. Columba
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A sinner as is every man
Columba for his family had great pride
Swift of tongue and hot of temper
He challenged all who in his path did stride.
At Cool Drewny where Connacht and Ulster meet
Met the kings in battle swords dr [...]
