Heartlands Poems - Poems about Heartlands

HOLY ANGER

...God, in vengeance is jealous.
God, in vengeance is furious.
On the table of his foes vengeance is served,
For his enemies, his wrath is reserved.

Slow in anger,
Great in power,
He acquits not...

The Life of 'AE'

...On a mild Spring’s night
In the heartlands of Ulster 
A prodigious child was born 
For Ireland, to save her

A man of modest means 
Yet formidable wit
The mystics he joined 
A cause to commit...

Against Hegemony

...Steps on mud, a stalking thread,
Red strings wind through dying groves
Where life needs time, to find footing,
Red strings halt hands in greed which hold
The axe of ignorance, the axe which bleed...

My Red Rose

...Let destiny create a distance... 
Firestorm of roses will set an inferno...
Arrow goading the scented sceneries. 

Maniac in love, heartlands of homophiles.
Lovely heart cradled in my lover's ar...

Moonlight and Proses

...Storyteller weaves his tales
throughout my mind and heart.
He alchemies my leaden days
into golden thoughts.

We soar above the shrinking earth
on word-filled wings at night,
glide on intellec...

Wood Lands-

... was a strolling through the heartlands
and you are in the foliage
Woodlands
When I thought of the woodlands
there are the trees never pining
Death shall never come to the maples
an...

There the Reckoning

...Where the earth, 
either scorched or drowned,
meets the fire of war 
or the floods of indifference,
where the sky,
once pristine, now flight-scarred,
meets the trawlers and the oil rigs
on the...

Don'T Write Poems

...“Don’t Write Poems“
*************

what can I say i write poetry my life
in solitude yet to read the original
will it please, you tease
your words spectres roaming blind
then ou...

And It Will Be Served Proudly

...And it will be served proudly

Shore to shore, long highways roam undignified
through heartlands of wounded fields, crying
overgrown long of factories closed,
unemployment, crime,  
homes forec...

High Rise

...Wandering past bungalows
Sneaking through high covenant areas
Setting servants and dogs barking.

I go home
Desperation crawls in to the heartlands
As dawn crawls in.

Bastards!
They’ve buil...

Condolence Book

...Loss fills the air
As people queue;
Death can speak

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A common thread
Links us in gloom;
Mindful faces

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Dry humid March
National mourning;
Heavy hearts

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A Place Called Tomorrow

...There is a place called tomorrow
Where this set of politicians
Who claim we elected them
Will all be gone
Even the last trace of their names
Will be no more.
No need naming names
Or pointing fingers ...

In Seeds of Sunflowers

...Between the fibers 
of this page,
an ancient magic
has been laid


Pressing leaves 
with mystical power,
and kissing the corners 
to grow sunflowers


Cherish a word
a wish or rhyme,
ma...

The Wounded Year

...When all the marbles leave the bag
Fret not, weekend wrangler,
For the beat of your heart 
Wobbles the very Earth

This your wounded year
With waves calling from pier to pier
Rise, rise your g...

Castles In Spain

...Drumming from the amps, bristling with snares and hooks,
(“I see in your eyes, castles in Spain.”);
Aide memoirs of the past, post-war resurrection, stubbornly,
Wreathed in wires of smoke and deli...

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