A Connemara Girl
Barefoot she stands looking out A goat each side and bare of foot A pleasant picture of peasant poverty She has …
Ommmmmm!!!
Chanting Ommmmmm! in the Four Knocks in Naul, I though to myself as a Catholic was I breaking the first commandment, false …
We Reap What We Sow
The recent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in the wake of the recent earthquakes and tsunami shows what folly man has to …
Among Friends to Lodge
I have stood among plenty To my hand not have had a coin Have not gone hungry: Blessed I: among friends to …
Skopje At Night
The ladies are very friendly In the carpark outside the hotel If your interested and have money For you all will be …
As If a Pop Star
The African girls smiling, even from the eyes, And jumping, laughing screaming And I, apprehensive knew I wasn’t But wished I was …
The Flowing Dargle
The Sugarloafs it flows between The Dargles tinkling waters And by its banks often has been Wicklows courting sons and daughters Kilcroney …
Sitting in the Mouth of the Cave of Pan
Sitting in the mouth of the Cave of Pan With Athens spread far below Its easy to see the divinity of the …
Maedb Desires A Bull
All I have, has my husband, and a lot has he As have I, but yet my husband has more than me …
Where Are They Now?
Where are they now, the sons of Éireann They are dead, sleeping today, in the house of God But they will awaken …
A Kind of Madness
A kind of madness has swept our world: Replaced our love with fear A suspicion of another Based on their voice, or …
December 8th 2011
Cold wet soil of winter Is now her bed, darkness Eternal, wooden case embraces The body now still, but she Feels not …
Turbulent Seas
“as easily as an old woman reads a palm” Crossing the Atlantic – Anne Sexton Journey set upon with an illusion of …
Words Written in Anger and Anguish (Anne Sexton)
As Sexton slowly slid out of control, a feature of her writing was to go to free verse from rhyme. With words …
Life to His Kind Was a Game of Chance – the story of Tom Reilly, an Irish Soldier of Fortune
Adventures sake Brought the young sons of Erin Into uniform Thoughts of great glory Among shot and shell in hell Of the …
Sleeping They Lie
Sleeping They lie silent And the modern world Ignorant of them Plots and plans To tear through their restplace As a walkway …
They Slept in Peace
War and slaughter disturbed them not For over thousands of years As nation after nation invaded With guns, and swords and spears …
Aftermath of Tara
Chaos all around, word wrecked When you do ill to the dead It comes back on you So it is said Some …
Month of Mondays
It seems as if with all that’s on – And its not only some days – Everything than can has gone wrong …
Fence at the Mound of the Hostages
Steel erected to protect Is what they claim Offends all sensitivities Let us explain What others call piseogs We call respect For …