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Best Irishmen Poems

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Premium Member Three Irishmen
Three Irishmen by a window in stare
At a building just over there
From their heads their eyes pop
Their mouths all agog
So close they all are to...

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Categories: irishmen, funny, words,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Three Irishmen and the Clergy's
Three Irishmen by a window in stare
At a building just over there
From their heads their eyes pop
Their mouths all agog
So close they all are to...

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Categories: irishmen, humor, jesus, men, people,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Any Party
Supporting killing children 
they will never ever get my vote again 
when you abort a baby 
your aborting God from your life 

Non-christian parties
now they...

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Categories: irishmen, abortion, baby, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part Two
chieftains trade their loyalty behind the clouds
  high mountain king Carrantouhil commanding his Macgillycuddy Reeks
  men of begotten rank, scheming skulduggery
  secrets...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irishmen, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Stereotypes
Stereotypes


Black people all have rhythm and are good at basketball
   Not a single blond in the world has any brains at all
Englishmen have...

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Categories: irishmen, funny, poetry, prejudice, society,
Form: Light Verse



You Don'T Have To Speak English Well, Or Even At All, To Be a British Monarch
William the First was our last king to come uninvited
though invincible armadas have sometimes been sighted.

Foreign kings were imported in cases of doubt.
Native kings had...

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Categories: irishmen, england,
Form: Couplet
George Bernard Shaw
Back foot Irishman

Who remembers his
tripe 
Major Barbara 
Androcles and the
lion 
are we all asleep !

Just a man of his
time 
like a five minute
pop star
friend of...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irishmen, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sinful Politics Condemns God's Word
The Government's behaviour firstly no longer defends our church 
this mockery in itself shows a deep lack of good sense 
or the simple sourced judgement...

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Categories: irishmen, abuse, christian, conflict, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
Public History
I sit here steeping in the History 
of Our Land, a class, my eyelids dense.
Our Flag hangs in the corner of the class
Red and White...

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Categories: irishmen, america, education, history, identity,
Form: I do not know?
My Irish Blues
My Galway girl dancing upon the river                  ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irishmen, blue, celebration, dance, drink,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member It's Time I Was Moving On
Sad news today, February 6th in our year 2011
To "The Great Gig in the Sky" sell out in Heaven

My favourite blues rock guitarist, Mr Irish...

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Categories: irishmen, inspirational, life, loss, music,
Form: Couplet
My Irish Roots
I do not dream to wear the green
On any St Patrick’s Day
For the green itself exists in me
And is always on display
I carry my pride...

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Categories: irishmen, happiness, holiday, nostalgia, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Sea
ON A NORTHERN DOCK. THE LIGHTHOUSE SHINES OVER THE SEA, WHILE 
THE MOON DISAPPEARS INTO THE NIGHT. THE FRENCHMENS RESTORES 
THEIR ENGINE FOR THEIR BOAT...

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Categories: irishmen, adventure, life, mystery, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Song of Redemption
Arrested in faluered acts of inslavement
Parted from friends in family like vousledge
Isolated to a small room conjecting my sworn birth right
With in these wall speak...

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Categories: irishmen, black african american, life,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Silverbacks and Greybeards
Grizzled visages
of ol’ dogs and Irishmen
Signs of well worn lives
...

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Categories: irishmen, age, analogy, beauty, how
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs