Fight Over, Match Won
People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my …
Suppers Swapped Of Peasent and King
Time in time wonder shall show A wonderous time the world will know The peasent and his humble fare Shall at the …
Passing Ballybrit Castle
By force won from the feirce O’Flahertys Held by Burke for the English Crown On the wrong side of the Wars of …
Beyond the Crest of the Hill
Genes current battle is a struggle for him and Margo as it is for all couples who go through this, or who …
Flying a Drone in Merlin Woods
Flying a drone in the Merlin Woods in Galway today, I thought of when I watched the movie “Eye in the Sky” …
High Cost of Cheap Beef From Brazil
The powers that be tell you that we Should be happy with beef from Brazil They suppose its racist to oppose What …
The Buck , The Nyeuck
Recently a friend from the Blackwater Poets was diagnosed with Cancer, which we rarely refer to by name, preferring euphemisms such as …
There Are Many Roads to Dublin
There are many roads to Dublin, but some will tell you no They will tell you the one true road, if to …
Are the Fairies Against the Fair?
The locals they were wondering They were trying to make sense Why the Sergeant wants to stop Banagher Fair Or away in …
Holy Waters of Saint Bridget at Ballycumber
This story I first heard from a poem read by Rosemary Porter at Banaghers “Readings from the Pallet” festival some years back. …
War with the Whin
“Whin” is the word for furze in Hiberno English and Ulster Scots in the northern half of Ireland (North Leinster and Connacht, …
Three Magpies a Wedding Watched
To Geraldine & Joe, on the occasion of their wedding! There is an old Irish tradition that three magpies at a wedding …
Blog – Walking into the Light – Darkness In Light in Galway 2016
This has been a year where the loss of folk before their time has been all too common and public. I also …
Miracle at Saint St Augustine’s Holy Well
All hope gone bar blind faith The child to the well he was brought In desperation and pure belief was bathed A …
Keeping Time Throughout The Ages
The Prague Clock… words to be posted! Finally got this old one of mine back online!
Some House Party In Heaven
They are having some house party in Heaven All of the greats they were playing The Devil enjoyed the music drifting through …
The Great Mcgonagall
William “Topaz” Mc Gonnagle was poet from Dundee, who discovered he could make a rhyme at the grand old age of 52 …
Fidel Castro Meets a Country Girl
The dust was only settling The blood bare dry on the Cuban streets America gauging the new regime Brought him over their …
When The Bullets They Were Flying
When the bullets they were flying When the hunger strikers were dying Every one of them were trying To break down the …
Catch of the Merrow
The Merrow (Moruadh or Murrúghach, from muir, sea, and oigh, a maid) was a sea spirit thought to lure people to their …