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!
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Aged Eyes
Aged eyes, that one were with passion lit
Now are dark, as if no longer there
Is life, much less passion, lost in thoughts
Of times past they refuse to share
We look on the follies of the youth
Caught in passions throes, and we forget
That these aged eyes once were wild and young
Perhaps in their mind they still are yet.
The Exodus
Exodus – The Leaving
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From fields we came where often blood was shed
Of men from France, a land so far afield
And England too, they the sword and bloodshed knew
Few they who’d their position easy yield.
From cold earth, stony, soft earth rush ridden
Our people they strove, a living for to make
No [...]
The Sad Broken Little Clock
There was a little clock
That could not tell the time
It could not keep the pace
And could not ring or chime
And it sat there on the mantle
All alone and sad
And never cared for was it
And that was the fate it had
But one day a little boy
Trying to amuse himself
Reached up and took down the clock
From its perch on the shelf…
And winding [...]
The Walking People
In times past they were craftsmen skilled
But today they have no skill
That has a value in the modern world
As they head for the next hill
For over it is the wide world beyond
A road they travel until
Death in his time comes traveling
The road that they have long trod
And an angel says to them they can
Camp forever beside God
Srebrenica
Rows and rows of headstones
A sight we’ve seen before
And beyond them the eye can see
Rows and rows more…
The dead of Srebrenica
Victims of a war crime
Their remains we look at today
And wonder who and who by next time?
Before it was Germans and Croatians
And Bosnians and Kosovars too
And the victims was the Serbs
And the gypsies [...]
Faith and Faiths
Two women, one old: one young
Walk side by side, content
The older, dressed as befits her faith:
The other as befits her age in Ghent.
With “Rock Chick” emblazoned on two crossed guitars,
She may as well have been Belgian and white…
The old woman, maybe her grandmother,
Dressed as she deemed correct and right.
What faith awa [...]
Elegy – Sweet Afton
It was just another brand
Just another cigarette
Nothing of which to be proud
Or noteworthy, but yet
To those who with up have grown
And those who it have smoked
Lament its passing in these tough times
And nostalgia it has provoked.
It was my mothers cigarette
For all the years when I was young
No filters for her, oh no, no way
Raw tobacco up [...]
A Dream Shared Unknowingly
A dream horrific of men being killed
Woke the lady though the night
Of men of old with shield and sword
On horseback in a fight
Perhaps a film seen and forgot
Was what brought these dreams
As a stranger in a land as strange
Finding it hard to settle, sleep disturbed
Left the brain within nightmares range…
And so nothing of the dreams wa [...]
Walking in Autumn in Banagher
Upper Main Street – Banagher – County Offaly – Ireland
As falling are the leaves from the trees
I walked along at my ease
From nowhere to anywhere
Having not a care
With only myself to please…
Wind blowing formed a breeze light
As I admired the sight
As I walked through the town
Kicked the leaves golden and brown
As ah [...]
They Went Over
They went over… far over the sea
Far from their homeland, forever to be
They went over… far over the sea
Never to come back to their own country.
They built a new world, right up from the clay
They spead all over, as the Bible did say
They built a new world, right up from the clay
And now live the world over today.
People of faith [...]
You Are The Ocean
“You are not a drop in the ocean… You are the Ocean, in a Drop”
- Rumi
Atlantic Ocean – Morocco Fishing Village
We are but cogs in the great wheel of life
Keep your place, quiet, do not be bold
Everyone has their rank in the chaos of life
Keep to yours, be obedient, we are told.
But life is not machine, mankind are not [...]
Toast to Parting Brethern
Masonic Lodge – A degree in progress.
Brothers all, children under God
Who sees all that is there,
Makes all and likes all level
Likes all and keeps all square.
Until we meet again, a toast
Toast to present and absent friends
As others toast us when we are not near
As life on different paths the other sends.
We’re here today, but [...]
“Under the Fading Lamp” L...
Under the Fading Lamp — Chapbook from Tullamore Rhymers Club
“Under the Fading Lamp” is a new chapbook from the Tullamore Rhymers Club, featuring work from yours truly along with fellow scribes Anthony Sullivan, Ken Hume, Cormac Lally, Seamus Kirwan, James Delaney, David Mallaghan and Camillus Boland, and not forgetting cont [...]
Culture from a Cigarette Packet
The opening words to Robert Burns “Sweet Afton” I read on a packet of the cigarettes of the same name, which started my lifelong fascination with his works and the Scots poetry genre in general. It is indeed strange where culture throws her card…
Words I read of Afton’s waters
Green braes and other lines of Burns the b [...]
The Curse of a Bride Jilted
McKee, and the bridesmaid who he married, both were burned, in a seeming realisation of the Brides Curse
In Scottish fashion to be wed
Hugh Mc Kee to the Tavern did go
And all were assembled there
Bar the bride who did not show
And Hugh was disappointed
Beside himself and distraught
Humiliated and angry
Decreed that marry the bridesmaid he ou [...]
Lovers of Valdaro
The “Lovers of Valdaro”. This burial of a young man and woman, lying face to face, with their arms and legs entwined in an apparent eternal embrace was discovered by archaeologists near Mantua in Italy. The burial, which dates from the Neolithic period, was excavated as a single block so the two ‘lovers’ would not have to be separ [...]
All Things Pass As Does Time
A journey walked in olden times
Across the Western plains
Is little thought of today
Only the stories remains
In the minds of the young lost in play
Playing “Cowboys & Indians” they run around
Thinking none of the dead who lived there
Who fought and died for that ground.
As the West was tamed by farm and fence
And the redman c [...]
Saint Sylvesters Unwitting Legacy
Miracle of the Dragon. By Maso di Banco. Circa 1340.
Today, from the Occupy movement to the non politically aligned protest movements, the continuation of protest of the ordinary people against the corruption in business that is tolerated by the Church continues.
While the church has been vocal against revolutions and opposed the taking of [...]
