Carrick Poems - Poems about Carrick

...With their high viz jackets And size 12 boots Custodial hats And Neatly pressed suits From high ranking officers To the men on the beat Who all took an oath to protect the streets With ho......Read the rest...

...from island corner, big Antrim lad to Belfast city, a tiny pad shattered windows, tilted clocks Goliath had lost his socks gargantuan giant going mad Armagh apple girl, any topic ......Read the rest...

...In the photograph before me, stretched out to fit the screen, the faces that smile out at us are not what they would seem. But each a silent witness of the pain that haunts the soul and e......Read the rest...

...PART ONE You tap me on the shoulder and ask whose staff I'm on, Startled I try to tell you but see that you have gone Down the path of memory to a place of no-recall Where I'll no longer find y......Read the rest...

...See the snapping of love, I think he's angry at the metal glove. He finds it hard to see the queen, Overshadowed by the ornamental screen. Who is that stinging near the pen? I think she'd l......Read the rest...

...I venture on a falling tide, my little ship the current rides down river to the open sea, from Carrick Roads first to be free. Anthony Head I hoist the sails and now the boat leans to its rail......Read the rest...

...Jostling between the cattle as they crowded the street with steaming bodies I steered my bicycle to school. Fresh manure lay in puddles on the ground, plastering my shoes with sloppy mush. ......Read the rest...

...The 80's electronic band The Human League Came from Sheffield England My home town Phil Oakey The lead singer Had his hair short on one side The over long hanging down. He met the two girl singers W......Read the rest...

...I kissed her cheeks of salty tears, For she had broken my cold Resolve for all my fears Of natures gifts, warmth of old. She touched my spine, my fate. She turned, asleep to my sinking grace Its ori......Read the rest...

...Some people think knots are for boy scouts and sailors Cowboys, hangmen,Anglers and whalers But knots have many jobs to do To make this point I'll name a few turning two heavy ropes into one? ......Read the rest...