Lone Magpie On Lough Atalia Shoreline
A lone magpie was on Lough Atalia shore: One for sorrow, I looked for more, Alas, no more were to be seen …
Reading at the Circle Session at the International Bar
This week I had the honour of reading at the current poetry night “The Circle Sessions” at The International Bar” I wasn’t …
Three Roses In Her Hand
Three roses she held in her hand For all the world to see One each from two Pretenders A single rose from …
Never Mind the Heartache, Always Get the Verse
A friend of mine and fellow Tullamore Rhymer Anthony Sullivan has a quotation that goes something along the lines of “Never mind …
Awaiting the Eclipse
I wont be at Tara as planned for the eclipse later on this morning, but in Renmore due to a typical case …
Engaging with Art in Longford Providers
Art and Longford are not two words often seen together, but as with empty venues across the country, the old Providers Hardware …
She Walks Not the Paths I Find Familiar
She walks not the paths I find familiar Underfoot clear ground and sound stone That I have walked heretofor in life Foot …
Fleeting Shadows Confuse the Walker
The game of love, which others find so effortless, so it appears, to this traveller of lifes journey is confusing at the …
To One Side I Must Cast My Pen
Verses written win all hearts bar hers She is a slave to life, passion and chance: I am a walker of safe …
Life Flies By
Villages fly by as I Life’s eternal wanderer Who seeks to put down root From where his people came Do not stop …
She Loves Me Not, The Dandelion Said
“Elle m’aime un peu, non, pas du tout” The game of blowing on a dandelion stating does the object of your affections …
God Save Us From The Preachers
Sometimes, men of the cloth with wicked words, spread hate and so are agents of evil… the latest of the old poems …
Alchemy in Reverse
The wizard that is life and its cruel blows Takes the dreams we have been sold Smashes them before our very eyes …
Heart Turned To Gold or Stone
The heart shall turn forged by life, love and pain To gold, or maybe to stone, To be mined from the chest …
Giltraps of Kinnitty and The Fureys in Tullamore – Filming A Weekend with the Tullamore Rhymers Club
As cameras panned out on the Tullamore Rhymers taking a bow after a reading for the opening of The Fureys in Tullamore, …