If They Had the Words
...If soil could complain-
if air could sign,
if Earth could weep,
and if humanity could truly speak
of what it has done to itself.
They would recount quite wounds,
buried in silence,
echoes s...
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Categories:
foyle, 12th grade, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Thirty-Two
...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
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Categories:
foyle, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse
Ireland - a Divided Island Part Three
...kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
militarisation of memory and folly
an Irish nation half-wrenched from a bloodie...
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Categories:
foyle, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
The Maid That Waits For Me
...'The Maid That Waits For Me'
By Joe Canning. (c) copyright 2017.. All rights reserved
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Oh tonight the moo...
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Categories:
foyle, war,
Form: Lyric
Seat of Kings
...A stone round standing fortress crowns forever beauty
The name translated to english Grianan means sunny spot or sun temple
The land bows down inspirational the view
seat of the high kings dating...
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Categories:
foyle, beautiful, green, inspirational, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Great Guns of Love
...Daydreaming holding your hands love
we came to the great walls of Derry
sitting on the riverbank arising dream
awakening sweetly pointing out its guns
felt like singing into your ear
your a...
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Categories:
foyle, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Homesick
...From the Faughan river valley
To Binevenaghs mighty brow
I love these roads to travel
Wish I could tread them now
To in an instant be propelled
Landing on that grassy slope
That overlooks Mag...
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Categories:
foyle, ireland, nature,
Form: Rhyme