Sunday, June 16, 2013

Poem - The Bi-Polar Owl

The Bi-Polar Owl


the bi polar owl was in a bad mood,
the mice scrambled for cover.
To die was simply destiny,
but the mood brought sado machostic practices,
even the dead would not talk about.
The terror among the field mice palatable,
leading to mass migrations,
many moving to the town.
Scurrying in the shadows oblivious to the cat gauntlet,
the bliss of sudden death welcome.
Then just the shudder of memory,
the full moon in a wide field,
the silent swoop of the owl.
Life over in that moment,
the rush of adrenaline, the high,
scrambling for purchase to escape the shadow black,
faster, faster, faster,
and then...

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Poem - The Dining

The Marquess’s Marchioness ascended the stairs
the dining room perched in the high tower
I struggled from step to step
perfectly placed to admire her gastrocnemius
and semimembranosus and of course her biceps femoris
then my knowledge of musculature nomenclature deserted me
I was tempted to fall back on a somewhat chauvinist compliment
but the mood of the house was against it..
this particular night
then turning the last square corner
the dining room stole my imagination
a trick of perspective or reality
the long table stretched away like a serpent’s slither
a marble plinth with a motif of writhing waifs
thirteen black candelabra dripping blood wax on their skin
my mind was almost silenced
my heart ticking to the dripping
my life entwined with the waifs’ pain and pleasure

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Poem - Living in Paris Pigalle

Once upon a time, soon, I would like..
to go and live in Pigalle
just for a month or two, probably
be the ubiquitous unknown poet
see sex and pseudo love and sadness
emulsified into one emotion
watch the whores waltz and the dancing girls dally
admire their French accents
at a distance
sip absinthe early in the doubtful days
then talk to the elephant behind the Rouge
watch the faithful clamber up to perch on Montmartre
soak up the culture of the performers
all the way from Africa
maybe like is not a strong enough word
to be a poet in Paris
and become what I might have been
doing these deeds in detail
scratching subconsciously
at the opaque glass of a tomorrow


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Albert Maignan - La muse verte


















Alas the sad elephant behind Moulin Rouge was removed in the early 1900's however with the correct shade of absinthe it may be possible that it will reappear...



Pigalle by Alberto Pozzi 1947



Sunday, October 10, 2010

Poem - The Double Wedding

The Double Wedding 

10.10.10 


two oul boys well over forty 

at the Westmeath Batchelor 

debating how to remember a wife's birthday

they settled on a double wedding 10.10.10

the easy minded date essential

that problem solved

away they went to find wives


Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Y Mañana (after Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre) by Gotan Project)

 Y Mañana   (after Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre) by Gotan Project)

1.September.2009


I may well go to Buenos Aires 

and learn to tango 

with a girl in a long coat

and try to speak Spanish to her 

in between steps... 

if there's time

or then in an evening alone

wish for an Ireland far away

or then in an evening together 

forget all in a heart red wine

except the beat and the steps 

and the new words of a new world 

to a new girl in a new song during a new dance

just steps away...


Friday, May 16, 2008

Poem - The Wooden Spoon

I showed the child the wooden spoon

She laughed and said;-

“That is a modernist

symbol of oppression

whilst you may view it with nostalgia

using it on me

will result in legal action

and withdrawal of your grandparent privileges

I will also be alienated

But that is nothing new"

I bit hard on the spoon

to vent my dissatisfaction

with the post modernist regime

resolving myself to continued celibacy

to prevent a recurrence

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Poem - jesus sheep

Sheep standing in a field

In soldier like symmetry

For no apparent reason

Could it be that jesus

Is only someone that sheep see

In another dimension to us

Is he walking to us

Or away from us

Or do we care

The brain power of sheep

Is notoriously deficient

Their attention span short

Their lives brief

their impact limited

jesus sheep all

..


..

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Poem - Autumn Flirts with Winter

The blood tinged red of Autumn

Fading to a cold blue

As he Stumbles to his knees

The bleeding leaves fluttering

In the cold hand of Winter

Her body already gaunt

Stretched in anticipation of lean times

Plucking the last few leaves

From the grasp of Autumn

Unseen unbidden unwelcome

Yet the bodies of the seasons ebb and flow

Coupling briefly at the borders of their domains

While down down below

The little people shiver

In their hearts the fire of Spring smoulders

And Summer's full bosom beckons

In the far distance a beacon

To be heralded in due course

By the whisper of trumpet

Carried on a soft sensual wind


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Inspiration from this image of same title by Martin Murphy, used with permission, thanks Martin :-)
https://artsforge.com/martin/autflirts.html









Thursday, October 26, 2006

Poem - Zulus Revenge

 I had only just thought

of Zulus revenge

when the siren sounded

signalling government displeasure

more visits from the Culture Police

turning out the old notebooks

looking for my hidden thoughts

advancing armies ambling aimless

fierce black warriors lost on the burning page

their revolution revoked, redundant..










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Written circa 2006