Best Liffey Poems

ECHOES FROM THE LIFFEY.

I hear it loud and clear,
A clarion call for the Irish,
A call to awaken our inner strength and rediscover the true us,
Even...

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There's times I've thought
for all the rush, 
that days on end we sleep aloud. 
Time is always timing out,
we cannot seem to catch it there,
how...

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We go green on Paddy's Day.
That's because we like it that way.
Green clothing, green Liffey, green beer.
Green faces bring good cheer.

A time to remember we're...

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Dublin city 
Along the quays 
Over the bridge 
Across the liffey 
North and South divide. 

      
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Straight-up the arrows,
hard-pressed the doors
to all the rooms
in all the houses
on Clark Street.

Father Coughlin brought blessings
thinned with broth
from potato peelings.

Women poured tears
into fringed shawls,
and buried...

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This city 
has a spire 
in the middle, 
the needle 
of Ireland's despair, 
cost us money 
and lots of our riches, 
this is our city...

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Drenched in Red, with St. Valentine

Straight-up the arrows,
hard-pressed the doors
to all the rooms
in all the houses
on Clark Street.

Father Coughlin brought blessings
thinned with broth
from potato peelings.

Women...

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Irelands capital Dublin, it's a beautiful city
Famous for its Guinness and Jameson's whiskey
The Temple bar area for music and the 'craic'
Many say on departing "one...

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Dublin is Irelands capital city
On the river Liffey
It is at the seashore
With mountains galore

Viking settlement
With many more to come
Bringing changes
Throughout the ages

Diverse and welcoming
Humorous and...

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When they divide us as a nation 
we at large will fall flat on our faces 
being worth little as a country in value 
selling...

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I saw a homeless man 
Begging on O'connell bridge 
Behind him the dark stagnant waters of the Liffey 
Flowing aimlessly along the quays,
All around him...

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An ornamental doe and fawn,
suddenly move. Tails wave, noses nuzzle –
I have mistaken an actuality,
and now am thrown out of my skin.
I’m a millipede of...

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STAR 
 



You ask if there is another, 
another sadder than you, 
another who's soul is like yours, 
if another exists like her. 

No! There...

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At the Paranoia Poetry Club
They all give thanks
For the NHS and their
Cheap Prescription tranqs.
The recovering drunk,
The failed suicide 
Both sit together 
Side by side by side
Waiting...

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