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2018-11-20 23:30
You’re seriously bringing the crown, said she
Sure you’re only going up The Dains hill
And how in God’s name has this farcical show
Now become part of the drill?
You know… Read More
2018-07-17 21:32
Three generations of worker looked up in the fall of the mid-morning sun
United in theme for maybe the first time, focused on getting it done
Signaled as one with a rap on the pain, then su… Read More
2018-06-23 01:19
I was stomping through town when it hit me
When it hit, I’ll admit it hit hard
From the midst of a maelstrom of people
I awoke to feel suddenly jarred
For years I had tried to deny it… Read More
2018-04-14 00:50
It’s not drugs and it’s not gambling and it’s not “the demon drink”
But it’s closeted and reticent and rueful don’t you think?
It’s the alway… Read More
2018-03-20 22:01
The merchies on the sulky’s give less than half a shyte
Wrapped up in a sulky merchie’s world
They don’t want your approval and in some ways might be right
They’re b… Read More
2018-02-25 22:26
All too familiar like the back of my hand
Canvassing this winter borne decline
Registering the granules of faster moving sand
Paradigms infusion by design
Captive to a window honourable and… Read More
2018-02-04 01:45
The Under 8 County final was held at the Showgrounds on Wednesday night
Parents and well-wishers, experts and friends were drawn like flies to the light
Awkward excitable children were brie… Read More
2018-01-21 12:58
Beveled in the corner for protection
Sipping on a drink I didn’t need
Awkwardly evading my reflection
While leafing through a book I couldn’t read
A farmer’s son cut loose… Read More
2018-01-10 23:41
The puca arrived for the first time as the children got ready for bed
Dressed to the nines in his shirt and tie with a chimney pot hat on his head
Wafting his way through the hallway, he st… Read More
2018-01-01 11:43
January second and the purge has begun
No sweets, treats, sneaky cheats, no alcohol, no fun
No lounging in the afternoon, no dawdling this year
It’s detox, drills and diet pills in br… Read More
2017-12-26 14:10
What ever happened to Gary?
Where did it all go wrong?
One day you’re proudly Cock of the walk
Popular, proper and strong
Then all of a sudden you’re nothing
Cast aside like a k… Read More
2017-12-15 23:15
Sister Mary Francis was once Noreen to her friends
But no one’s called her Noreen in an age
Noreen was a live wire, or so the story goes
But she’s half a century now behind the… Read More
2017-12-03 19:55
He was a brimey curmudgeon
While she shouldered all of his shame
Well into winter on Thursday
On the eight o’clock Sligo bound train
Laden with trinkets and clobber
Auld tat that nobo… Read More
2017-11-27 23:16
Bricks and blue bangor’s, bastards in stone
Eyed up by nature, abandoned, alone
Caveat Emptor, for there’s nothing to see
A stick in the ground will not set you free
Once more f… Read More
2017-11-16 02:22
I was talking to the bump last night; the bump hasn’t got a name
It might be one or t’other, either’s fine
Explaining through your mother how we play the waiting game
How… Read More
2017-11-03 01:12
As the sun bled down on the horizon
A silhouette climbed up from way below
Familiar in gate and by comportment
Even when credulity said no
Emerging to a field of unbelievers
Balancing the g… Read More
2017-10-23 23:42
Tis shocking kauld says he
Ach is right, tis shocking kauld
As the pair a them stood there in open tags
T’will kill the germs says he
Ach is right, t’will kill the germs
And lit… Read More
2017-10-14 12:18
Divil a bit wrong with the gingers
Nare a bit. Nothing at all
All’a yiz all are just jealous
Jealous and petty and small
When you laugh up your sleeve in delusion
Well it’s just… Read More
2017-10-07 07:49
When I was fifteen years of age there wasn’t a thing I didn’t know
Now I don’t know half of what’s going on
At fifteen years of age you start unlearning as you go
Un… Read More
2017-09-28 21:48
What chance the guttersnipe, the thrower of stones?
The unfortunate poor hanger-on
Dragged up by the heels, no fault of their own
Tethered and told to belong
Is it Nurture or Nature or neit… Read More
2017-09-23 00:37
For Sadie and Poppy, for Bo-bo and Duke
For all of the dogs that have gone
Your tail may have wagged for the last time
But your doggishness deeds will live on
Second in line to the social
M… Read More
2017-09-17 22:07
There are no two ways about it; I’ve started to go bald
I’m saddened and I’m sickened, I’m mournful and appalled
At first I didn’t notice and sure ignorance is… Read More
2017-09-08 22:47
The logic of boys has been misconstrued
Now the rulings returned on their lot
While mothers seek reason for all that they do
Boys logic asks only; Why not?
Why not pull the scaremonger cat… Read More
2017-09-02 08:40
It’s likely that they threatened him, or gate-crashed after dark
Noah simply wouldn’t have just let them on the Ark?
Spiders’ fine and rats I get, however they’re de… Read More
2017-08-27 18:47
Not of the doctors’ orders or recommended in the main
Yet here I am advising you to walk among the rain
Overthrow and soon let go of comforts cold concern
And ready up the requisite r… Read More
2017-08-20 12:47
Marigolds, red lemonade
Parish draws and old time ways
A word to the wise for free
Same faces young and old
Black and white days all gold
Spirits rise and breath
An old light
Harbinger
A ti… Read More
2017-08-15 23:26
I found out what I was made to do whilst carrying the boy
In the box seat, front and centre stage
Enraptured in the parody of every pride and joy
Afforded to me now and of an age
An age tha… Read More
2017-08-09 22:41
It was a day like any other with the sun splitting the stones
Juan, the Spanish house-fly had his mind set on a roam
He hugged the wife and children and he said he’d be home soon
Lic… Read More
2017-08-04 06:13
The home for the bewildered is an otherworldly place
Where parallel dependencies survive
Emphatic warped surrendering of dignity and grace
Lies down beside the will to be alive
The doors sw… Read More
2017-07-30 20:59
You can keep your Hulkamania; Haystacks was the man
A brooding great colossus, but I’d always been a fan
When most preferred Big Daddy, Shirley held no sway with me
I roared on the so… Read More
2017-07-23 21:09
I left this place in nineteen eighty-seven
Jettisoned unwilling out the door
It’s the same door still today so much further on the way
And pawed since then a million times or more
I&r&helli…Read More
2017-07-18 22:32
That reassuring resonance, that thing you can’t define
The under-current calling you, recompense – red wine
The sweetener to the servitude, where right and wrong align
A garland… Read More
2017-07-16 12:53
Belle is a princess; I’ve seen her princess dress
She also is a cowgirl, and that’s allowed as she’ll attest
Her boyfriend’s name is Dexter, which makes Dexter a pri… Read More
2017-07-07 22:19
On our 5-Speed Viking racers we set out on our endeavor
The local Alpe D’Huez, myself and my friend Trevor
There was no Lycra in them days, no power bars nor coach
When both of us wer… Read More
2017-07-01 22:23
Me mother would wake without asking, just as daylight seeped into the sky
The rest of the clan would in due course arise to the glorious smell of the fry
Me father in service would loll dow… Read More
2017-06-27 22:09
Patience was a virtue but patience now b’damn
A weakness in a woman and an impotence in man
For patience was a luxury and now its day is done
Step aside for any and you will be over ru… Read More
2017-06-24 22:29
With parking at a premium we congregate outside the door
A sprinkling soft rain is just a prosy to ignore
Through chatter barely spoken our credentials lay undone
“No I didn’t k… Read More
2017-06-21 22:07
Sugar is bad for you, bread is bad for you, so too are butter and eggs
A sedentary lifestyle is bad for your health, but running is bad for your legs
Low fat is bad for you; no fat is bad… Read More
2017-06-20 21:26
My uncle’s Datsun Cherry was a marvel to behold
For every journeys gambit brought adventure to the fold
Back then its grim arrival meant I’d instantly loose hope
My poor teenage… Read More
2017-06-19 21:56
When John Thomas died in November attendances dropped by a third
The kettle still danced on the pot-hook but one of three cups never stirred
Into Winter he’d fetched and he’d car… Read More
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