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Daily Archives: January 31, 2015
Promises, Promises by Paul Muldoon
I am stretched out under the lean-to Of an old tobacco-shed On a farm in North Carolina. A cardinal sings from the dogwood For the love of marijuana. His song goes over my head. There is such splendour in the … Continue reading
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Rhythm of Life By Eileen Carney Hulme
The clock is silent nowadays clocks no longer need to make that rhythmic sound of life. We have moved on and everything is changed I am no longer sad I don’t weep for you. In still moments I see you … Continue reading
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Indian Summer By Eileen Carney Hulme
Like a deep blue wave of passion you shore into the room where I sit waiting quietly, open-booked. We have moved through days, loss, pain to hold this moment, this picture postcard seascape of gentle harbouring. You say ‘I knew … Continue reading
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Sleeping in Blue by Eileen Carney Hulme
I lean into you, we bury down in the dunes the breeze holds like a whisper you stroke my brown knees your fingers are my unspoken thoughts the silence is sensuous, suffuses like scent of sandalwood I watch the sea … Continue reading
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A Lament By Katharine Tynan
(For Holy Cross Day, 1914) Clouds is under clouds and rain For there will not come again Two, the beloved sire and son Whom all gifts were rained upon. Kindness is all done, alas, Courtesy and grace must pass, Beauty, … Continue reading
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The Curse By J. M. Synge
o a sister of an enemy of the author’s who disapproved of ‘The Playboy’ Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung, and liver, In her guts a galling give her. Let … Continue reading
Prayer Before Birth By Louis Mac Neice
I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born, console me. I fear that the human race may … Continue reading
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As By Paul Muldoon
By Paul Muldoon As naught gives way to aught and oxhide gives way to chain mail and byrnie gives way to battle-ax and Cavalier gives way to Roundhead and Cromwell Road gives way to the Connaught and I Am Curious … Continue reading
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The Ruins of Timoleague Abbey By Seán Ó Coileáin
I am gut sad. I am flirting with the green waves, wandering the sand, feeding reflection into the seaweed foam. That Shaker’s moon is up. Crested by corn-colored stars and traced by those witchy scribblers who read the bone-smoke. No … Continue reading
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Tomorrow By Dennis O’Driscoll
Tomorrow I will start to be happy. The morning will light up like a celebratory cigar. Sunbeams sprawling on the lawn will set dew sparkling like a cut-glass tumbler of champagne. Today will end the worst phase of my life. … Continue reading
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The Wish, By a Young Lady By Laetitia Pilkington
I ask not wit, nor beauty do I crave, Nor wealth, nor pompous titles wish to have; But since, ’tis doomed through all degrees of life, Whether a daughter, sister, or a wife; That females should the stronger males obey, … Continue reading
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Collaboration By Ciarán Carson
I am being paraded through the streets with my head shaved, with no memory of what I have done to deserve this. I run a gauntlet of women who call me slut and whore, staggering under their fusillade of accusation: … Continue reading
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‘Quoof’ By Paul Muldoon
How often have I carried our family word for the hot water bottle to a strange bed, as my father would juggle a red-hot half-brick in an old sock to his childhood settle. I have taken it to so many … Continue reading
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Elegy for a Child By Paula Meehan
It is not that the spring brings you back. Birds riotous about the house, fledglings learn to fly. Nor that coming on petals drifted in the orchard is like opening your door, a draught of pastel, a magpie hoard of … Continue reading
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Please Vote From The Shortlist Ireland’s Best Loved Poem
If you don’t vote you can’t complain about the winner http://apoemforireland.rte.ie/vote/ And the finalists are: 1. A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh 2. A Disused Shed in Co Wexford by Derek Mahon 3. Dublin by Louis MacNeice 4. Easter 1916 … Continue reading
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