Kid in a Cart in Kosovo
This poem is a few years old. To this day, there are still Roma, Egyptian and Ashkali families in lead polluted homes, …
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 …
I Loved Her, She Loved Horses
Guillherme Schroeter & Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
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 …
Modern Venus
Inspired by the painting by Roz McQuillan She sits there, a modern Venus The seashell thrown to the tossing seas And to …
Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagogue
“,”Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagogue”,”Pragues picturesque Pinkas Synagogue in the Josefov district is now a museum to the fallen from the …
Srebrenica
Rows and rows of headstones A sight we’ve seen before And beyond them the eye can see Rows and rows more… The …
Poem To A Cow and the Poets Who Wrote About Her
Poem in reply to the poem “Epistle to Hawkie the Cottier’s Cow on Hearing She Ate the Bible” by Samuel Walker and …
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 …
Haikus for Iran
Haikus for the Iran protesters, forgotton in the West, that now has little to gain from the risks that they took.
Two Roman Bridges at Porto Torres
Two proud Roman bridges standing Over a small river commanding Beside a town, forever expanding As over and under them I walked …
Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration
The second verse refers to the Lady of the Sweetest Smile, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, …
From the Womb She Speaks
Abortion promotes women’s rights we are told – forgetting that at least half the victims of abortion are female, even more where …
Hatred in the Heart of Olde England
Once again Dale Farm is in the news, where Irish Travellers implemented a plan by John Major, ex Tory PM of the …
The Courtly Lovers
Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile Wrought tears from my heart, not blood: From me she has flown, from afar …
A Postcard to Her Father Sent
The Maria Lazum story, recounted to me by the poet Paul Polansky who knew the family. He was the author of Black …
The Flowing Dargle
The Sugarloafs it flows between The Dargles tinkling waters And by its banks often has been Wicklows courting sons and daughters Kilcroney …
Maedb Desires A Bull
All I have, has my husband, and a lot has he As have I, but yet my husband has more than me …
Life to His Kind Was a Game of Chance – the story of Tom Reilly, an Irish Soldier of Fortune
Adventures sake Brought the young sons of Erin Into uniform Thoughts of great glory Among shot and shell in hell Of the …