Divine Struggle – Sylvia Plath.
The raging waves of the mind Tore her spirit asunder Yet still she wrote Those word we read… with wonder As words formed by worms of thought In a brain ragged from emotion The reader richer from the...
View ArticleA Phonecall Overheard
A double suicide delayed by train back to Dublin after the Poets Express event in 2010. The pointlessness of it inspired the following poems. A woman speaks… I overhear As others talking ot their...
View ArticleDeath on a Traintrack
A stopped train, and I awaken In the middle of some godforsaken Piece of country, as an announcement is making By some Polish girl of why we have stopped. No its not leaves upon the line – At least not...
View ArticleSmiles Can Hide a Million Tears
Smiles say more than a thousand words, By some folk it is said, But some hide the falling of a million tears That unseen have been shed. So next time you see a worry free smile, Though you worrying may...
View ArticleAnother Enemy Less For Enda – Trevor Murtagh Tribute, R.I.P.
Enda’s taking them down, one by one, on behalf of the EU and the Banks His cronies get commissioners jobs: Merkels way of saying thanks, In a world that makes no sense at all, where justice does not...
View ArticleAll Sorts of Accents at Accents Café
David Hynes – this time he kept his pants ON As per invitation, we arrived at Accents Café on Lower Stephens Street for seven-ish. OK, for once, I was actually early, arriving at the cafe dubbed...
View ArticleWe Are Not the Enemy
We are not the enemy, the folk who pay the bills, Who try to pay their mortgages, who themselves through suicide kills Because there is no hope to be seen, at whom developers sneer Stating “there must...
View ArticlePiecing together the JIGSAW for Mental Health in Offaly
Death walks among us. In every town and village in Ireland, in all communities, even the Irish Traveller community in which it is still very much a taboo, suicide stalks, and claims victims, one of the...
View ArticleShe Loved Not Him Who Her Father Chose
A poem I wrote some years back, on love, a disapproving family, and a tragedy of murder and suicide! which I now republish on the website… She loved not him who her father chose A man with castle and...
View ArticlePhonecalls Never Made
I meant to ring but never did He normally did but never did The unspoken though that silent hid Told the truth, successful bid How can that be success at all, Action unknown bar for unmade call No...
View ArticleMen at the Door
Taxpayers evicted by the banks who were bailed out by taxpayers – Modern Ireland: why not bring back the Land Commission as it worked for the landlords it would for the banks, people would get to hold...
View ArticleBlog – Walking into the Light – Darkness In Light in Galway 2016
This has been a year where the loss of folk before their time has been all too common and public. I also this morning managed to finally do the Darkness into Light walk here in Galway. Walking towards...
View ArticleHigh Cost of Cheap Beef From Brazil
Empty feilds in Valentia Island in Kerry in Ireland where cattle used to graze. The EU pay famrers NOT to carry stock so as to create a blobal market for beef from Brazil, the price then too high for...
View ArticleEdgeworthstown exhibition aids Pieta House – Fighting against suicide and...
The fight against depression and suicide has many armies, one of the most prominent of late being PIETA House, and at a fundraising arts and crafts exhibition in Edgeworthstown I got to help raise...
View ArticleThe Actor Quits The Stage
This was not part of the script The actor ended the play Told the audience its over He is the actor and gets to say. The audience are bewildered Some angry: more shocked The stage hands try the...
View ArticleHad She Never Written a Poem
Oh that as they lay there On the floor of the family home Taken by gas like to many of their folk Had she never written a poem! – For all their beauty they are not worth The sin that only God can...
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