Distant Farewell
You were there when my screams were bornin your arms sating my hunger the milk of motherhoodfeeding with […]
Project Tag: poem
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Intrusion of Lawn Care on Isolation
Feeling the gentle heat of the stretching days adjusting to the seasonthe silver edge of the grey cloud […]
Spare Change
Sitting at the round table, two thousand and twelveWith a view of the gardens and a sunny morningSouthside […]
Unseen
My form beneath hardened blackreticulate limbs joined in purpose stability in the pores of the earththe unseen strength of […]
Opus Dei
The days of the coat hangerand the shameful trip abroadsecret children hidden awaylaundries awash with Magdalene shame.Have respect […]
Puzzle Piece
Post solstice sunlight low in my eyescombustion propulsion battering airturbulence the resistance breakinggoing south in the freezing sunrise.The […]
Intolerance
Seated beside privilege overhearing bitter conversation as they drank skinny lattefrom an opulent overflowing cup. Handbags of one month's rentlay nonchalant […]
I Walk
Today I walkedin the steps of a year agomoving across a plain through the pastfeet displacingdew droplets from bladesmemories […]
Survival
Led by the light my form is twisted turns that seek outillumination from external sourcescompelled to followthe brightest radiancebending to the […]
Solution
Filled with the solutionthat is the sea of saltstinging open wounds cleansing with painbrought to the edgewaiting, for the […]
Unbroken
Unbowedshaped by the worldveils of mistclouding the clarityshort sighted by the persistent cloudUnbrokenresistant the ill windsdetermined standknowing clouds disperseskies […]
Under The Palm Trees
Under the fan splayed leaves of Dublin City's potted palm trees half blinded by the faint autumn sun […]
Inevitable Disaster
Where once I turned pages now my thumb slides and the stories swipe left and right tapped into […]
Path of Reflection Cracked
No way through the obstacle my path lost living in my mind a black flood of unknown depth […]
Autumnal Lane
Metallic light of cloudy greycracked open the quiet laneuninhibited hedgerows encroachnarrow black road of soft edgesbejewelled with the […]
Un sown
Seeds cannot growwhen stored in a drawerunnourished they remain oldviable potential slowly diesembryonic inspirationsthat never fall to fertile earthshrivel to […]
Mute Walls
Spined brambles hang in the once windowed arch vine like pendulums swing with the breeze ticking off time […]
A spire
Spires reaching in bloom finding heaven in the light rooted in the deposits of earth fed by the […]