Flying Over Europe
Flying over Holland on my way to Prague, I looked down at the view bomber pilots on all sides had on their …
Gaza – What Can We Do?
What can one do, so far away? We see the pictures in the papers, on the internet, on the television, baffled as …
Saved by the Buttonhole
“They are buttonhole relations, when the buttonhole breaks, they are nothing” ~ North Longford saying The flames of war streaked the sky …
Upwardly Mobile
The closest we get To being the one percent is To die for their wars.
War and Poppies
In Flanders fields, and Kandahar, In deepest Afghanistan, Poppies bloom, the Flowers of War, Blossom of the Savagery of Man. In the …
Tolerance Is to Be Practiced by Other Lands
Words spoken of tolerance In other lands Not to be practiced Here at home. Its just words spoken Rules like those Are …
A Child Plays
Amongst all that is wrong In these present troubled days When adults of tomorrow worries Among them, a child plays… As if …
Guerencia
They fled in terror as from the sky… Rained death, and wondered why And how the world to this had come As …
Murder of a Worm in Scotland
I saw the murder of a worm On a sunny morning as I did yawn And a bird, probably a blackbird Committed …
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 …