It is a tune stolen
From the ponies’ prayers. Continue reading
Tagged with Poetry …
Once Upon a Barstool
What a rarity it is to be seduced by the sound of the human voice and the beauty and rhythm of the spoken word: Continue reading
Poetry
does God not see
our tears falling on the ground
near the stony road Continue reading
Poetry by Maria Wallace
unspoken words waiting
to be given a sound. Continue reading
Remembering St Mochuda (Carthage) and all the Saints of Ireland
It includes the first public recitation from a Litany of the Saints, in an Irish language prayer-book, Continue reading
Poetry
No new life here and ancient yellowing receipts
hung on rusty nails in the long black rafter beams. Continue reading
GALLIPOLI (The Great War)
The peninsula is a beautiful picturesque landscape littered with graves, many of them Irish graves. Continue reading
Poetry
they came to this place, made treaties and nature
swearing to die as they did for desperate causes Continue reading
A poem and a pendant
The letters of this alphabet were trees’. Continue reading
Poetry
So I wept for want of a lost love, as all sons their mothers. Continue reading
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