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:
gullion, 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:
gullion, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Refrain On the 6th
...Reflected in a silvered mirror lies a lustrous crystal bauble
Beguiling bribe veiled to eyes adrift in denial
Atonement for his guilty heart, a souvenir
of that marbleiz...
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Categories:
gullion, emotions,
Form: Free verse