Art Inspired Poetry

The Famine Cross

At the back of St Josephs Hospital in Longford, there is the local famine graveyard. This poem is dedicated to those interred …

Picasso was a tad mad… and none the worse for that!

Art and Longford are not two words often seen together, but as with empty venues across the country, the old Providers Hardware …

Its been a crazy week, a stink has been kicked up over the shit that was raised that led to a man …

We know not what lies ahead, As our journey through life we make We walk to meet it regardless With each faltering …

I seek to draw a picture here A shed, roof caving in, Its gable end seen through the door By the artist …

As if Nero, as the city is destroyed Consumed by economic storm Fiddle is played – how good we are Come, listen …

The world, its wonders and promises false, Drive us forward to distraction, Seeking more than what we have, Provocation causes reaction In …

Inspired by the painting by Roz McQuillan She sits there, a modern Venus The seashell thrown to the tossing seas And to …

Barefoot she stands looking out A goat each side and bare of foot A pleasant picture of peasant poverty She has …

The Sugarloafs it flows between The Dargles tinkling waters And by its banks often has been Wicklows courting sons and daughters Kilcroney …