There Is a Cottage in the Country
Sometimes, Irish Americans whose ancestors left the country generations before can be too nostalgic…
Caress of Barbed Wire
The caress of barbed wire For a while causes pain But keeps the beast in the field So it can remain Where …
All Sorts of Accents at Accents Café
As per invitation, we arrived at Accents Café on Lower Stephens Street for seven-ish. OK, for once, I was actually early, arriving …
Quiet Hours Passing Slowly
Quiet hours passing slowly Day that was young is getting older And a day that was never warm With a growing breeze …
Out of Tune
No fingers now draw from it chords That it once formed, each one like words Now only insects and birds Dwell among …
Offaly’s Answer to Imelda May and Ciaran Lavery in a Ballinagar House Concert
Ballinagar is a quiet country village between Tullamore and Edenderry, with one pub a few shops and the usual amenieties. Tonight, there …
I Shall Prepare a Feast For Thousands… And Yet Never Grease a Pan
A humersome yet morbid ghazal, for Halloween!!! All in the world around you is dead Or to you it appears to be …
“Tara Calling” Promotional Video
Just launched online is Carmel Divineys promotional video for the “Tara Calling” book which is to be launched soon.
Lake In All Its Splendor Spoiled
A lake in all its splendor spoiled By a group of babbling chavs It was the opinion on being observed As “have …
Brendan Bowyer Rocks Tullamore with aid of Tullamore Rhymers
When one thinks of Brendan Bowyer, they think of the Showbands, and not of the current music scene, and with that thinking …
Flying Over Europe
Flying over Holland on my way to Prague, I looked down at the view bomber pilots on all sides had on their …
Earth Gives Healing
In times before corporations Shareholders and their greed Earth gave healing to humankind Harnessed by understanding, according to need. From painkilling properties …
Behind Hedges, Forbidden Activity
Once upon a time, and the back of a hedge… Or in a country cottage in Ballinalee Or a tap on the …
2015 Siobhan English Horse Fair Calender, Tara Calling book, and Blackwater Poetry tribute anthology – some projects Hot Off of the Presses
From a calender of horses, to an anthology on the passing of a writer, and a book to save Tara, the writings …
All Fair at the Ballinasloe Fair
There was auld wans and young wans and all sorts of wild ones Piebalds and ponys, and big horses, small ones hands …
More Than Just Another Memory
To ride a horse is to ride the sky, Someone once said somewhere… Well I was not with horses raised, But I …
I Was the Reluctant Lover
This poem was inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London a few years ago, and is in fact a …
Marching Past Trinity College
Written after the “Right to Work” march on June 1, 2010 —oOo— We marched there, chanting slogans Past the gates of Trinity …
Address to my Feathered Friend
When growing up in Banagher, the Willie Wagtail was one of my favourite birds. They nested regular in our garden and yard, …
I Said I’d Make a Voodoo Doll
This is an old verse I found on my computer, from when the economy first crashed in 2008 and the extent of …