Snakes Defense to the Charges About the Garden of Eden
My dad used to wind up preachers from the Jehovahs Witnesses by denying the Eden story, and using the last line of …
Fair Girls at the Horse Fair
They walk the streets, young, wild at heart Among horses the men admire Free of sprit and fast with word To the …
Bell Book and Candle Stocking chapbook – At the Fringe of Galway Fringe Festival – Drama at Galway Mechanics Institute
Chapbook hits Bookshelf in Galway The chapbook is formally on a bookshelf… for sale… at €5 – the sole stockist in Galway …
Ill Go Where Im Sent
Invitation received: all were excited Again their friends where they are twinned they would meet Its not a junket: this, this is …
Burning Zeal Rekindles the Flame of Faith
Every so often as a writer I get asked to write a tribute piece for someone about someone who is important to them. …
Strangers Scorn Us For Being What We Are
For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way. They scorned us just for bein’ what we are. But they …
Two Swans
Two swans swimming in the river cold Meet beak to beak together In love for life it is said These birds are …
Dead Now, And Their Beliefs With Them
Inspired by a story of my fathers about a person who could not find their way into the house one night at …
Cooking up a Poem
Playing with language he tosses the words And stirs them with his pen In the saucepan of the page Which he heats …
A Poets Lament
This is an old verse of mine, found on a previous draft of the website. Poetry has got me free into a …
Gambling Is A Losing Game
Love is a losing game. ~ Amy Winehouse God and the Devil opened casinos To see who would win God promised honest …
The Human Behind the Headlines – At the Cinema watching “Amy”
Amy – the human behind the headlines After the furore of her death, and the frenzy of her life, I wrote one …
Wake at Birr
The true and humorous tale, though shocking at the time, of the fiasco of my mothers coffin, at her wake in Birr… …
Wake at Ballinalee
My mother told of attending a wake when a child in her native village Ballinalee, where the pipes that were smoked cermonially …
Toasting Two Kings
I was at the Aughrim Horse Fair last Sunday, and while viewing all of the horses – and the women! – there, …
We Are Spectators on Another Greek Tragedy
As Alexis Tsipras capitulates to the EU/IMF,we remember one of austerities victims… The death of Dimitirs Christaupolos shows the callous effect that …
Scene of the Rhyme Preserved after Tullamore Rhymers Bandits Hijack the Eco Bus Cafe at Valentia Island Festival
It was a right Scene of the Rhyme – two days in a row, a captive audience were held at rhymepoint on …
Looking Out at the Skelligs
From clifftop in morning mist A view I would have missed If weather was finer, or I had slept This murky view …
Kenavo
One New Years Eve, a strange noise was heard in the small Kerry village of Portmagee… a strange procession of sailors from …
Memories of Tullamore at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club – Setting off for Valentia
I was down tonight at Irelands Smallest Comedy Club, where fellow Tullamore man (Im not Longford now that its cool to be …