Long Liffey Poems

There's times I've thought
for all the rush, 
that days on end we sleep aloud. 
Time is always timing out,
we cannot seem to catch it there,
how fast we try and run it down. 

I thought it...

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ECHOES FROM THE LIFFEY.

I hear it loud and clear,
A clarion call for the Irish,
A call to awaken our inner strength and rediscover the true us,
Even the walls echo it.

Motherland beckons,
The lush green fields needs weeding,
The...

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Irelands capital Dublin, it's a beautiful city
Famous for its Guinness and Jameson's whiskey
The Temple bar area for music and the 'craic'
Many say on departing "one day I'll be back".

Molly Malone can be seen, with her...

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At the Paranoia Poetry Club
They all give thanks
For the NHS and their
Cheap Prescription tranqs.
The recovering drunk,
The failed suicide 
Both sit together 
Side by side by side
Waiting for the mic
To pour into the air
Their personal tales 
Of angst...

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I saw a homeless man 
Begging on O'connell bridge 
Behind him the dark stagnant waters of the Liffey 
Flowing aimlessly along the quays,
All around him a large crowd of people 
Walking to and fro
And somewhere...

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This city 
has a spire 
in the middle, 
the needle 
of Ireland's despair, 
cost us money 
and lots of our riches, 
this is our city so fair, 

a government 
in ruling 
our ruination, 
as the...

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STAR 
 



You ask if there is another, 
another sadder than you, 
another who's soul is like yours, 
if another exists like her. 

No! There is no other like her. 
But there is another soul,...

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An ornamental doe and fawn,
suddenly move. Tails wave, noses nuzzle –
I have mistaken an actuality,
and now am thrown out of my skin.
I’m a millipede of fractal awareness.
I sniff the body-odor of the planet
take inward, then...

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We go green on Paddy's Day.
That's because we like it that way.
Green clothing, green Liffey, green beer.
Green faces bring good cheer.

A time to remember we're Irish.
Especially those Paddys overseas.
They go out and drink like idiots.
Until...

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When they divide us as a nation 
we at large will fall flat on our faces 
being worth little as a country in value 
selling the rights of our future down the Liffey
I pray for...

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