Men in the Company of Women – Valentines Day
“Men in the Company of Women” is a men’s anthology of love poetry written for the women in their lives, or …
Lit Candles Don’t Commemorate A Self Immolator Great
Inappropriate, the guide girl said Is the offering in memory made Of one man who was not afraid To show his dissent …
The Walking People
In times past they were craftsmen skilled But today they have no skill That has a value in the modern world As …
Via del Carmen, Sassari
Tapestries hanging on a wall Alphabets and poems Embroidered by women when girls Hanging on walls of their homes Handed down by …
Consequences of a Drunken Cupid
I love you , I hate you at the same time” he said As she sobbing, begged him to stay Two drunken …
King Congal’s Grief
Congal, the proud king, his wife a prince bore Alas, in giving to her son his life She lost hers, tragic the …
Farewell 2012 – Bring on 2013!!!
As we bid farewell to 2012, we look forward with renewed vigor to the coming year of 2013. We survived yet again …
Dusky Aphrodite of the Smiling Eyes
She was the loudest and the most beautiful Her smile came from the soul Through the eyes as much as through the …
Wren Sleeps Soundly This Christmas
Wren no longer hunted, nor Church attended Clergy speak to deaf ears, eyes have seen What all thought could never be, sinners …
Death on a Traintrack
A stopped train, and I awaken In the middle of some godforsaken Piece of country, as an announcement is making By some …
It, Not I
As some sort of abortion legislation is in the pipeline in Ireland after the Savita case, the pro-choice lobby are in their …
Monster in my Cupboard
The shadows dark, when I, a child Slept, or rather when I tried And creaks and groans of ancient timbers Would have …
Christ Was A Slovakian (Deceased)
On the day Ireland beat Slovakia 1-0 at soccer, (28th of March,2007) Irish Mail on Sunday journalist Paul Palmer found that his …
Haikus for Iran
Haikus for the Iran protesters, forgotton in the West, that now has little to gain from the risks that they took.
When the Water Goes
There was a wise man who to panic began And he did not know what to do From the frost and the …
A Right Wingers Modest Proposal for the Betterment of Irish Society
Kill your children, working classes, we don’t want you on the dole Kill your children, their only fetus’s, only tissue, are not …
Pannonia in Peace and War
These plains wide watered By seasons rains from the sky Bringing life to earth. These plains wide watered By mans blood shed …
Freedom – To Be Still a Slave
Each man is free, so lucky is he To money to be, a slave so free… But he is not, let it …
Bad Santa
Santas in the bathroom smoking dope I think for him theres not a hope Hes in there with me aunties And hes …
Two Roman Bridges at Porto Torres
Two proud Roman bridges standing Over a small river commanding Beside a town, forever expanding As over and under them I walked …