Vampire Killed By Love
I have a friend who is big into all Vampire stories, and we were discussing the saying about who loves the flower …
Three Magpies a Wedding Watched
To Geraldine & Joe, on the occasion of their wedding! There is an old Irish tradition that three magpies at a wedding …
Never Mind the Heartache, Always Get the Verse
A friend of mine and fellow Tullamore Rhymer Anthony Sullivan has a quotation that goes something along the lines of “Never mind …
To One Side I Must Cast My Pen
Verses written win all hearts bar hers She is a slave to life, passion and chance: I am a walker of safe …
Alchemy in Reverse
The wizard that is life and its cruel blows Takes the dreams we have been sold Smashes them before our very eyes …
I Was the Reluctant Lover
This poem was inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London a few years ago, and is in fact a …
Bloody War of Romance
It died at birth, not that it lived Just a notion, foolish, a man Has to dream, to live, to desire But …
What Could Never Be
In half sleep, half dreaming Darkness fills the midnight sky Stars twinkle behind the clouds That hide them from my eye… She …
I As Solomon, Seek My Shulem Maiden
Where art thou gone, maiden fair That I as mine desired to be But I was as the army last time we …
My Heart Will Not Keep Her Warm
My heart will not keep her warm Nor will it keep her dry But in my heart shell have a home Until …
Willie Rimes Meets His Valentine
The bould Willie Rimes, the love of his life, a lot of Russian chaps, an empty bank account, couple of cops and …
Snowflakes in Another Land
Her heart beats for another, Life goes on, he who has her hand, And her heart, makes it beat faster, Under snowflakes …
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 …
Thought I – A Poem I’ll Write
Thought I: a poem I’ll write For her every day, Though never loved was she by I My feelings for her I’d …
Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration
The second verse refers to the Lady of the Sweetest Smile, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, …
She Seeks
She seeks, each morning new, her desire And me? I remember her, she who I did desire Dripping, rain finds home from …
When Aged, Who Will Hold Her Hand?
When aged, who will hold her hand, Remember joys and woes, And who will hold mine when aged am I, As life …
The Courtly Lovers
Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile Wrought tears from my heart, not blood: From me she has flown, from afar …
What Is Not to Be
Some things are not to be: Winning the lottery And other such things Man can live without For man can live As …