I Hope When Old to Waste My Time
From a GB Shaw quote, who was no fan off chess, unlike me, who is!
Let Death Have For You No Fear
Master Greene was a Ballinalee schoolteacher who learned the Irish Traveller cant and ended up teaching it to the grandchildren of the …
Reflections on Freedom
This poem was written as for the PREDA Fundraiser for Fr. Shay Cullen in Open Heart House in Dublin back in 2011. …
Those Who Perfection Seek Shall Be Smited for Their Pride
Those who total perfection seek shall be smited for their Pride For to achieve perfection is to say you are better than …
Sleeping Neath a Nipple
While climbing the Paps in Kerry some years back with writer Derek Fanning, I took a nap under the Cairn on the …
A Maud Gonne of the Kurds
As Kurds fight to free Korbani I post this old poem of mine in tribute to the Peshmerga and their women fighters! …
Caress of Barbed Wire
The caress of barbed wire For a while causes pain But keeps the beast in the field So it can remain Where …
Out of Tune
No fingers now draw from it chords That it once formed, each one like words Now only insects and birds Dwell among …
Flying Over Europe
Flying over Holland on my way to Prague, I looked down at the view bomber pilots on all sides had on their …
I Was the Reluctant Lover
This poem was inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London a few years ago, and is in fact a …
To See Her, To Love But Her, And Forever
Music and singing by Guillherme Schroeter. Words Tomás Ó Cárthaigh To see her was to love her The radiance of her smile …
A Horse Is a Horse
A horse is a horse and a man is a man And neither can be the other And each can survive but …
911 – A Tribute Poem
The War on Terror is the wrong response to 911, which I dont believe to be a conspiracy as circulates on the …
Saint Rynagh’s Church Bell
The bell is ringing in the distance As to all it spells the time I turn over so I can sleep And …
What Could Never Be
In half sleep, half dreaming Darkness fills the midnight sky Stars twinkle behind the clouds That hide them from my eye… She …
Give to Me an Angry Sea
Give to me an angry sea When I am old, not strong like now And at my happiest I will be Should …
Walking by Swans at Lough Sallagh
As if applause, a clap clap clap Echos the evening air As I walk past spectators And yet, there’s no-one there. It …
Lettera D’amore
Cara mia, ti voglio bene… “My darling, I love you The words to her I wanted to say But I never did, …
When Lost Among Nettles
When lost amongst nettles ye’ll find if ye search, my stone of remembrance is marked with an Arch Life, the world, its …