Emagi a Pillar Box
...William Soutar 'A PILLAR BOX'
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Categories:
gpo, poems,
Form: Shape
Lament For Tardy Post
...The sun is passed its zenith, the postman’s day is done;
Nigh 50 miles his horse has trod, just two thousand
More to go. My little case is a lighter load, much greater
He has born, yet still the p...
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Categories:
gpo, satire,
Form: Sonnet
Dublin
...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 day I'll be back".
Molly Ma...
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Categories:
gpo, ireland, places,
Form: Rhyme
The Rising
...100 years ago
On a foggy Easter morn
I saw some men with guns
marching in the dawn
I followed the to Dublin town
Upto the GPO,
I thought they would rob it
But they let civilians go
WE PRO...
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Categories:
gpo, anniversary, ireland,
Form: I do not know?
Summer In Karroodorp 1954
...On the anvil that’s the dorp
The noon-day sun beats down.
So between twelve and two
Life in the place is suspended.
Doors to the stores are ‘toe’
And in their dusty windows che...
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Categories:
gpo, seasons, solitude, urban, ,
Form: Blank verse
Day's End In Enniedorp
...A day in June.
Tuesday.
Week’s worst day!
Twenty to five.
A wintry sun,
Low in the sky,
Casts long shadows,
Emits no warmth.
I’m in a dorp
With tired shops,
Bank and church,
GPO and a ...
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Categories:
gpo, nostalgia, places,
Form: Blank verse