2013 – What a year for Tullamore Rhymers Club
Its been quite a year for the Tullamore Rhymers Club, with December fitting in a couple of unplanned events as the members …
Idle Thoughts While Walking in Sligo
There is little in lapping waves here where I walk, And mountains tall loom over houses, Neath a grey sky that fortells …
Christmas Eve at the Hospital
Everybody was getting drowsy, drinking coffee to keep awake, Planning to get kebabs and chips, eating biscuits to beat the band, Idly …
Gates to the Gods
Gates to the gods, the people flocks, To worship at the waters pure, To leave tokens, offerings there… Take home some water …
Windmills Wave at the World in Wonder
Childlike waving, standing, live scarecrows, In excited fury and the breeze grows, Arms spinning wildly, and then slow, According as the wind …
As They Lay Him Down
As they lay him down… Madiba… Let them not forget, Forgiveness, what he though them, For hatred, now subdued, can yet, Tear …
Santa Gets a Letter from Iraq
Santa got a letter, a letter that broke his heart, Asked him for peace, to end a war that Santa did …
Poetic Crimes of Willie Rimes
He said he was talking to Mally, About the new book put out by Lally, Unlike Carty it didnt take him ages, …
Letter to Santa
Dear Santa, I am a taxpayer, Im been good throughout the year, Ive paid up all my taxes, and did not cry …
Madiba – Farewell Mandela
Mandela, farewell a fond world bids you, You, who by many names in your time were known President and prisoner, commoner and …
Eve
I In the eyes of Eve was not Evil But a desire of love for to know, And the act of Adam …
Tinsel, Spiders and Christmas Trees
House cleaned, all perfect, webs broken with brooms, Banished spiders found no stable at the inn, never mind rooms, So to bide …
Song Brings Silence of Guns at Christmas
Searing notes of a foreign song Brought silence to the roaring mouths of guns… Men, bitter enemies fighting before… Crossed lines, found …
Santa XXX
Santy is an unknown casanova… An intercontinental romantic supernova, He gets to play away Once a year for a day… Behind the …
Snowflakes in Another Land
Her heart beats for another, Life goes on, he who has her hand, And her heart, makes it beat faster, Under snowflakes …
Images of Christmas
Songs sang, bells ringing, Turkey dinners, and more of goose, Hymns and carols, choirs singing, Puddings, drink, presents of little use, All …