Best Gael Poems

A leprechaun looking for gold
'neath the shimmering shamrocks of olde
      (with the luck of a Gael)
    ...

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An unfortunate calibre is a turtle turning in a towel. Vast vistas vacate villages videoing vests vehemently And all the time the sleeping beast snores...

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SHADY LADIES





Hostas


Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space...

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empty slides in the park



chatter fills the school bus

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line...

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The mist lifts slowly



A new vista is unveiled

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem...

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Scot Dane Gael Celt all went into the meld
Brit and Moor aye even more it took to make
This Erin brood that kills itself
All in the...

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See this now:

Easter 1916

Two 
roads dissapated from
blacktop to
gravel to
dirt.

Two roads driving through the Emerald Isle parralell to one
another-
or was it X and why?
a perverse axis,...

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WINTER SPORTS

Snow falls




The hills are alive

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a...

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How
beautiful...............an image
suddenly...............conceived
an instant..............thought
following...............a terminal
caesura.................pause
hesitation..............or dislocation
of attention...........written
read by.................a seeing eye
or said
aloud

Columnar style after Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet.
Turnbull  created the imagist Spaces form in his collection...

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A window pane shatters



Nobody makes a home run


Note:'spaces' is an imagism form .It has a title and three line ,the middle being blank and left...

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A kingdom of the Gael
Lying well outside the Pale !
Subjects of an Ardri Lord
From Clare to Kerry
And Cork to Waterford...

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Scot and Gael 
Pict and Brit
Even Cymru
Thrive in grit
No Back up
Not a bit
‘tis Celtic
Stubborn
Writ.
Fired in adversity
Tempered in
Ice cool
Deliberation
Honed in
Tribal
Code
One with
Earth Mother
Ever on call...

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A bird’s eye view 
conversation overheard in a park 
somewhere near you


Hey, Ori ... what’s up?

Nothing much, Marque.
Just flying low, bro.

Big Ollie, the Ruby Cleaners...

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HISPANIC REVERBERATIONS





Blue-bells



Note ; furore in Uk gardn circles over invasion of foreign immigrant blue-bells 
over native inhabitant..much like the grey/red squirrel discussin.k

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet...

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I love manly men.
I love men in tartan kilts
who wear them effusively.
What is under them?
Do they wear short pantaloons
that will not show under kilts?

Or just...

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