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September 2013

“Pop Up Poetry” at Culture Night 2013

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~POETRY POPS UP AT CULTURE NIGHT IN TULLAMORE, IRELAND ~~~~~~~We had in Tullamore Rhymers Club, for the Culture Night event, what we …

There Are No More Horses Here

Once horses trotted ambled and gamboled As children in rags so plain Begged for pennies and bread In sunshine and in rain …

Old Clonbroney

This is a ghost story told to me by my mother, from her grandparents, either Kiernans Mill or Treacys. The roadway mentioned …

The Hungry Grass

A shiver runs up my spine As stories I recall Of people dead in times gone by I was told of when …

Dead Souls And Black Dogs

The little old lady had lived for long, She was great of age And the time was coming along For her to …

An Endangered Species

Once upon a time a phonebox In the days when I was young Was the height of technology And from where taxis …