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Pondering Poetry

Whimsical verse on poetry, and the relationship between poet and reader…

Free Verse in Free Flow

Random lines on a fleeting thought
Wrought stanzas on the page…

On Beauty and Hatred

Words of form fashioned in beauty Often placed in ordered lines and ranks By those whose order of their desiring Is founded …

Shin Rin Yoku

The only “Bards in the Woods” I managed to attend was a few years back, in Mullinaleaghta in Longford, where John Wilmott …

The Great Mcgonagall

William “Topaz” Mc Gonnagle was poet from Dundee, who discovered he could make a rhyme at the grand old age of 52 …

The Muses Café

Easons on Dublins O’ Connell Street has a Cafe called Muses… appropiate for a bookshop! While there, looking at pictures of now …

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 …

Sleeping Scribe

Sleeping scribe with inward eye Ponders life, its challenges, wonders why Through the jumbles of our dreams Rummages random through lifes scenes …

Heaven Taught Ploughman

“A heaven taught ploughman” – Henry McKenzie speaking of Robert Burns. He learned much with plough in field Beast snorting, as ever …

Dreams Fled Away

Quote: Dreams fled away, this country bedroom, raw – “Another September” (Kinsella) Dreams, aye, dreams dreamt by dreamers have fled And the …

His Pen Ran Dry

For the memory of Ivor Higg, R.I.P. His pen ran dry, as happens to every writer, The pool of ideas of the …

Babylon’s Tower Fell Down

Babylons tower fell down After angering god by Heaven trying to reach And so God toppled the tower Confused their tongues, a …

Snotgreen

Buck Mulligan: “The Bards noserag. A new art colour for our Irish poets:  snotgreen. You can almost taste it, cant you?” Ulysses- …

Does Poetry Matter?

In an age of instant communication, where image and music is king, the question is often asked, does poetry matter? Judging by …

Egregious Idiot

Back then David Conway used to regularly bait the Labour councillors at council meetings by making mention of “the egregious Mr Higgins”. …