Childhood Ireland Poems

Goodbye to the leprechauns
goodbye clover carpets of green
I will cross many a deep blue sea
 to a wide sunshine land, just for me.

I have my...

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the wind pops like a ball hitting a wall
boy of 3 years struggles to control his small,
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The poems I never wrote are 
all here on my page on this site 
I mean it 
I plagiarised every one of them 
from some...

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I saw a heart on a Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill,
The heart was pink and so very hard to see,...

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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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Water crashes against an unmoveable stone face.
As white foam blows high like star's in space.
My gaze reaches up and over rolling hill's of
beautyful green grass...

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The Pillars of humanity
felled by little boys tears
Irish clover
not so lucky for boys in white
defrocked
a new generation of holy men
the cycle of sodomy
sickens the soul
yet...

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Steep are the crags of the Macgillicuddy Mountains,
Steep are the mountains that slope down to the sea.
Deep are the streams and the fast flowing rivers,
Deep...

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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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I remember the smell of the polish
The hissing of steam from the pots
The songs on the radio playing
And my nose dripping with snot

Mum would grab...

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As a boy I walked the town, near knowing everyone
The Sun it shone all Summer long I revelled in the fun
With relatives and friends we'd...

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To be called ..
            ~   Grandma is a Honor ~

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