Long Gael Poems

An unfortunate calibre is a turtle turning in a towel. Vast vistas vacate villages videoing vests vehemently And all the time the sleeping beast snores as the cattle drive by in their mooving mobile manufactured...

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A bird’s eye view 
conversation overheard in a park 
somewhere near you


Hey, Ori ... what’s up?

Nothing much, Marque.
Just flying low, bro.

Big Ollie, the Ruby Cleaners rooftop dove,
shared some bad popcorn news.

Oh, yeah. What’s the latest...

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Scot Dane Gael Celt all went into the meld
Brit and Moor aye even more it took to make
This Erin brood that kills itself
All in the name of Christ
Who was this chief
This pure white thief to...

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The Tale of Artuir mac Aedan; The light of the West.

In The Begining.

Behold my son this our home of Airer Goidell
in the land of Airer Goidell in Alba.
Far from our birthland of Ulaid across the...

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See this now:

Easter 1916

Two 
roads dissapated from
blacktop to
gravel to
dirt.

Two roads driving through the Emerald Isle parralell to one
another-
or was it X and why?
a perverse axis, perpendicular, split in 
the tumultuous fit?

Its almost like the rising...

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How
beautiful...............an image
suddenly...............conceived
an instant..............thought
following...............a terminal
caesura.................pause
hesitation..............or dislocation
of attention...........written
read by.................a seeing eye
or said
aloud

Columnar style after Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet.
Turnbull  created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than...

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SPACES-THEOPHANY

This is my beloved Son


Hear Him?

Note:'spaces' is an imagism form .It has a title and three line ,the middle being blank and left to the readers imagination. I labelled it 'spaces' as the middle line...

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spaces-PECKING ORDER

Sparrow on the bird table


the hawk has a feast


Note:'spaces' is an imagism form .It has a title and three line ,the middle being blank and left to the readers imagination. I labelled it 'spaces'...

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A window pane shatters



Nobody makes a home run


Note:'spaces' is an imagism form .It has a title and three line ,the middle being blank and left to the readers imagination. I labelled it 'spaces' as the...

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HISPANIC REVERBERATIONS





Blue-bells



Note ; furore in Uk gardn circles over invasion of foreign immigrant blue-bells 
over native inhabitant..much like the grey/red squirrel discussin.k

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967)...

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I love manly men.
I love men in tartan kilts
who wear them effusively.
What is under them?
Do they wear short pantaloons
that will not show under kilts?

Or just in the buff
that will allow air to flow
and cool what...

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