Turbulent Seas
“as easily as an old woman reads a palm” Crossing the Atlantic – Anne Sexton Journey set upon with an illusion of …
Words Written in Anger and Anguish (Anne Sexton)
As Sexton slowly slid out of control, a feature of her writing was to go to free verse from rhyme. With words …
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 …
Sleeping They Lie
Sleeping They lie silent And the modern world Ignorant of them Plots and plans To tear through their restplace As a walkway …
They Slept in Peace
War and slaughter disturbed them not For over thousands of years As nation after nation invaded With guns, and swords and spears …
Aftermath of Tara
Chaos all around, word wrecked When you do ill to the dead It comes back on you So it is said Some …
Month of Mondays
It seems as if with all that’s on – And its not only some days – Everything than can has gone wrong …
Fence at the Mound of the Hostages
Steel erected to protect Is what they claim Offends all sensitivities Let us explain What others call piseogs We call respect For …
What Is Not to Be
Some things are not to be: Winning the lottery And other such things Man can live without For man can live As …
Rain Fell On Parting Dancers
As rain fell I turned, she walked The other direction. And the worlds greatest love story Ended Having never began. She was …
May We Never Have A Love For or Want of Turnips
May never for the humble turnips We have a need or love For neither is good for man For the former he …
Once There Dwelt A Scotsman
Story of isolation, death, and how a burglar was more Christian than the townsfolk…, the latest of the old poems restored to …