Lose Antennae
...Lose antennae? I’m a beetle!
Not one bug in Aleghenny
(at least, none you’ll ever meet’ll)
lose antennae.
Luck with chicks? I won’t have any!
Directionless, centripetal,
wireless wimps are t...
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Categories:
kilkenny, insect,
Form: Roundel
Green--but Not Beer
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A brew-loving guy from Kilkenny
is mad! His wife spent their last penny--
on a cask of green beer?
No, she hopes to bring cheer
with green cookies~~poor clueless Jenny!
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Categories:
kilkenny, green,
Form: Limerick
The Curragh Races
...Paddy went tae the Curragh racecourse
Bet his all on the favourite horse
Noo he’s back in Kilkenny
Withoot even a penny
Tae cry in his Guinness wae remorse
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Categories:
kilkenny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Express Train
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Door open,
hurtling loud and at full speed
towards my destination,
beneath me a blur
of mounded ballast
and withered grass,
the world coming into focus more
the further out I look -
graffi...
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Categories:
kilkenny, life, memory, time,
Form: Free verse
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:
kilkenny, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse
The Tale of Miss Jenny Prime
...Let me tell you the story of Miss Jenny Prime,
who spent all of her days making everything rhyme.
It was thought she’d outgrow this strange childhood spell,
but her fetish just grew and made her p...
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Categories:
kilkenny, funnynight, night, , cute,
Form: Rhyme