Ireland Poems - Examples of all types of ireland poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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To Mary Grace at Twenty-EightYour steps so measured, soft and slow,
Through Irish streets where neon glows,
While I match pace, half-step behind,
Your gentle rhythm fills my mind.
Tomorrow brings your twenty-eight,
As Newbridge glows through Darragh's rain,
Like Naevis' light through darkened skies,
Where...
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Categories:
birthday, ireland, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Deibide Baise Fri ToinI'm trying,
and I would not be lying:
my life as an Irish Bard's
hard.
It's absurd,
much like working a crossword,
tracking the column and row
though.
So tiring!
Like hooking up the wiring;
after three, I think I'd best
rest.
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Syllables: 3/7/7/1
Rhyme: aabb, with a...
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Categories:
ireland, writing,
Form: Other
The BansheeWhere legends lurk
And dark tales abound,
This killer wails ...
A horrible sound
She cries and cries
Still, none ever see,
The creature they call
The old banshee
And if you hear her
Late one night ...
You will not live
To see daylight
Some...
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Categories:
cry, death, howl, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
suspected he was a leprechaunRascal the rapscallion was a slyboots rogue
he fancied himself a pixie, spoke Irish brogue
we suspected he was a leprechaun hiding gold
he lived in Skeezicks Forest, Celtic land of old...
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Categories:
ireland,
Form: Rhyme
celtic princess
Categories:
ireland,
Form: Senryu
Fairy BloodForest fairies fly the righteous path
When the sun kissed leaves transform at last
Turning shimmering shades of red like wrath
As fairy blood reveals the past
Of countless summers gone too soon
And dropping...
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Categories:
ireland, august, autumn, beauty, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
TempleThe sun or earth and the moon resembles a kind of love
for instance
now, do they share air or water or sticks or something
...
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Categories:
inspirational, ireland,
Form: Free verse
futile to the fedthey call it our independence
we were never dependent
they'll rape our only mothers
make us repent it
they'll sell our land
and bomb us when we tent on it
they'll condemn our freedom
after forcing us to...
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Categories:
ireland, arabic, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Rhyme
your face is the map of Irelandyour face is the map of Ireland
she looked over at a Marlboro man of the sixties
ruggedly handsome
he said nothing else
but his smile gave her goosebumps
it was slow and intelligent
she slid her purse two seats down
to...
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Categories:
ireland,
Form: Free verse
are you feyI feel like an honorary leprechaun
Maybe because I am part Irish
but especially because I know where the four-leaf clovers dwell
are you fey? Someone asks as I hand them out at work.
Only Irish, and part leprechaun,...
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Categories:
ireland,
Form: Light Verse
my ego wants me dead in irelandTires rang against the road in my eyes
The grinding of whetted knives
Tinnitus rings in my teeth
Threats are thought, silently
Back sores scream and swamp
Ass creeps through the carseat
In the beauty of County Mayo
I am it's tourist...
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Categories:
appreciation, environment, ireland, memory,
Form: Free verse
A Night Out in DublinI went for a night out in Dublin,
The amount of Oasis being played was troublin',
We drank one after t'other
Till we stopped hearing those brothers,
But in the morning our stomachs were bubblin'...
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Categories:
drink, fun, humor, ireland,
Form: Limerick
Tir na nog - A Tragic Epic Saga
Tír na nÓg - A Tragic Epic Saga
ye hear, of a leprechaun and a unicorn who met in a field’s corner
a he and she, she killed by a tree, when it fell he couldn’t warn...
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Categories:
ireland, dark, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Day TripLeave it all behind. There’s no room for your baggage,
but your togs, towel and the factor 50 promise.
Sail the roads west.
Teenage freedom is in the bottom of the lidl bag,
clung by ice-creamed fingers, up the...
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Categories:
ireland, beach, friendship love, fun,
Form: Free verse
the eejits finally got the hintShe wrote down “Erin go Braugh or go home
It was the beginning of her St Paddy’s day poem
A couple of eejits were staring at her now
Her corn beef and cabbage was fully a wow!
She took...
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Categories:
ireland, march,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Ireland Poems
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