Best Dominic Poems

Been chatting to our Grandson
Dominic James Owen by name.
He comes over to see us he's wonderful to see
We celebrate his birthdays, the last one he was three.
Have you ever watched a racing car
Whizzing by at breakneck speed?
Have you ever tried to catch a whirlwind?
I doubt...

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. Vigil For Dominic

Dominic,
I saw you the night they carried
you down the cat walk
to the clinic.
We were shouting and yelling,
Get him to a hospital,
and we banged our shoes
against the bars until
they came with tear-gas and hoses
to drive us back to silence.

All week long
we kept waiting...

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. Vigil For Dominic

Dominic,
I saw you the night they carried
you down the cat walk
to the clinic.
We were shouting and yelling,
Get him to a hospital,
and we banged our shoes
against the bars until
they came with tear-gas and hoses
to drive us back to silence.

All week long
we kept waiting...

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On Memorial of St. Dominic
We remember that man who sought to teach the truth in service to Father Christ
The Master Teacher
Every age has its errors
As Dominic encountered with Albigensian heresy over 800 years ago

In our time
We are likewise called to proclaim the truth both clarity
Charity
No...

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(The UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee was in June 2022)


You're at Trooping the Colour now, Dominic.
Were we not friends when we were schoolboys?
You look so smart now, Dominic, guardsman,
wrapped in the shining redness of that costume
under your tall, beautiful bearskin cap.

Recall that friendship, Dominic,
those distant days...

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When Bojo was combing his hair
Dominic Cummings was not there
In spite of the law
Cummings drove to see Ma
For Cummings no goings despair...

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