Art Ireland Poems

Colour me perfect in green white and gold, 
A tricolour heart from the young to the old,
A land of giants from the causeway to swift,
A...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations

The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the...

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Seven Things I Have Not Done

As if Time was a series of outlines to be filled with colour
Each hue a different life value
Who comes up...

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Harp strings
strangling hope

Promises
swept by disease

Followers
who pile lies upon pies

Day and night
a blur

Deceptions
inside lyrics obscured

Sheep's slaughtered
haven't you heard?...

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Clip art,

dancing stars,
    
dictionary wars,
 
semblance starx,
 
solitary parts,
 
 Clip art......

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Poetry is the fashion
The pope, the last bastion
Out with the old
In with the aborted

Crowds gather in anticipation
Poet Arthur recites To Patrick's Nation
England you see
Believes in...

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Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931), was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London....

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Reflections 
Songs Not worded or versed   
Pure instrumental voice
Peaceful and soothing
Listening
Mild and calm contemplating
Reflective and serene
Like the past scenes
Developing 
the repetitive beating 
ongoing...

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There was an old man who piped a war                ...

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How big you seemed, how bright your stage
how loud and funny, in my little boy's eyes 
you were larger than everyone else's life,
even a lifetime...

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Guinness Finesse

There’s an art to the pouring of Guinness
requiring a devilish finesse
twixt the foam and the ale
the rule cannot fail
never pour ‘til the first one...

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TEARS OF AN IRISH GIRL
        ( Impression From Grandmother 3x Esther Louise Arbuthnot's Photograph 1876)
While the rain is...

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Have you ever seen the like of it before
The mad people leaping around the floor
There is no music I can hear
It's all in the head...

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To be called ..
            ~   Grandma is a Honor ~

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