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Best Poems Written by Peter Mccluskey

Below are the all-time best Peter Mccluskey poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Reading Rebus

We’re reading some Rebus
Connecting up dots
It bends us, it weaves us
In all sorts of knots.

The writer is laughing
We’ve misread the clues
The motive is baffling 
One more we change views.

We quickly turn pages
And wait for the twist
But Rebus he taunts us
A flick of the wrist.

He sits in his glory
An Edinburgh bar
Sir Ian shapes our story
While sipping his jar.

And we’re hung out to dry
We’re tortured with doubt
And as hard as we try
We can’t work it out.

The final page greets us
The truth a sharp sting
And Rebus, he saves us
And Rankin’s still king.

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Actually Going Outside

Actually Going Outside

We decide to do the cliff walk
from Bray to Greystones
even though the day is grey
and the heavy clouds are low overhead
with a distinct possibility that it will bucket out of the skies
but we don’t care
because we’ve set aside the day for this
and a few pissy showers aren’t going to stop us
from making the journey along the winding Wicklow coastline
because we promised ourselves we’d do it
and we want to stick to our guns this time
because we’ve spent too long putting things off
and wasting our time on Facebook and You Tube
and prevaracation
and telling our friends
all the interesting things we do when in reality
it’s a virtual reality we’re fabricating that is more or less
an entangled mass of tissued stories and tall tales
and posed-for selfies
to delude ourselves and others
that we have an actual life
but not this time
because
this time
we are actually going outside.