Columbus in Galway
Long before the ocean blue he sailed In a journey history often has told Galways streets were walked by a Gonoan man …
Good Food, Good Meat
My mother worked in the 1925 F Street Club in Washington, where she met Fidel Castro who left little positive impression on …
Pride Blinds Men That See
In the Trumpian age, this verse of mine from seven years back or more is apt… Blind men with eyes that see …
Statues Fall
Freedoms cries brought the statues down The Reich lay in ruins as a new regime Promised freedom of a version of the …
May the Lord In His Mercy Save Us From the Worst of Mac Leod
Im sure some are good people From the shadows of Tong steeple But the one the world does know Contempt for all …
Seven Deadly Sins of Donald Trump
Grab em by the pussy ~ Will this make the inaugural speech of Donald Trump? As Donald Trump is set to be …
And That Morning Too Came
And that morning too came Common sense said it could Every fool and bigot has a vote They use it, unlike us …
Death Comes Calling
Chicken Little of the modern age “The sky is falling” the media rage They follow him through the darkest wood He knows …
Charleston Yesterday and Today
God be with the days when it was but a dance When you thought of Charleston, in newsreels, Of crazy steps of …
There Is a Cottage in the Country
Sometimes, Irish Americans whose ancestors left the country generations before can be too nostalgic…
Showers Expected
“Showers expected, but not of rain From a people not from here On a people from other places Who live wild lives …
Our Lady of Clonfert, Bless Both Boston and the World
As Boston comes to terms with its tragedy, we pray to Mary who is venerated in both the Islamic and the Christian …
Guernica
They fled in terror as from the sky… Rained death, and wondered why And how the world to this had come As …