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Fr Jacques Hamel – Martyr – RIP

He knelt in his parish church this morning The world knew not his name But God knew him – as strangers On …

Rainbow Gone Red

In memory of and in solidarity with the victims of the PULSE nightclub shooting in Orlando. While its probably a lone wolf …

Fight Over, Match Won

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my …

Some House Party In Heaven

They are having some house party in Heaven All of the greats they were playing The Devil enjoyed the music drifting through …

Far from for Kiltartans Poor He Died

William Butler Yeats poems in memory of Major William Robert Gregory celebrate him as an Irish airman, not giving the fact that …

Birds Sing

The birds sing among the boughs The wind blows soft upon the face Life is hard on the best of days Hard …

Memories of Your Mother

For Liam O’ Roirdan of the Blackwater Poetry Group on the passing of his mother. The group does a day of verse …

Phonecalls Never Made

I meant to ring but never did He normally did but never did The unspoken though that silent hid Told the truth, …

Carol for Christmas for Our Times

It was the greatest love for earth that God has ever shown It was the greatest love unknowing that mankind has ever …

Every Book Has Its Last Page

Dedicated to the memory of the late writer, artist and musician Ingrid Andrew… Every book has its last page When turned, signifies …

Veil Through Which We All Pass

Recently a friend of mine passed, Victor Mather, who I knew from a world beyond politics, in which he was very active …

Christ Was Crucified In Dublin

As if once more nailed to a cross In Dublin, Christ was crucified Where on a street beside the Dáil The least …

Breaching the Veil

Death creeps like a shadow and darkens our lives… In time the truth we see The shadow is cast by the unseen …

Obituary – Ivor Hogg

The passing has happened lately of writer Ivor Hogg. Under the name of “Poeticpiers”, he wrote on WritersCafe.org and also on Arcanum …

No Room at the Inn

She died alone, like a cow in a field, the papers wrote Nothing new there, comment passed as true as it was …