People flocked round badly hurt Paul,
Ten minutes ago had a fall
While he was playing rough football...
And they had to a doctor call,
Then with chess players in a hall,
Loved more than the card's near a mall
"No! His treatment not in this hall,
For not being ethical at all...
Some First Aid and then my clinic...
At least, it'll save me one cynic!"
And you with a dislocation:
Get ready for relocation.
Categories:
relocation, care, career, cry, death,
Form: Rhyme
We’ve moved
my wife and I from home
to the last place
we’ll ever live and she
wants to know why
I’m sitting around
not helping to unpack.
So I tell her the problem
which is her problem too
but she keeps unpacking.
I’m not at home, I tell her,
but I’m not here either.
Not to worry, I say.
I’ll let both of us in
when we arrive.
Donal Mahoney
Categories:
relocation, age,
Form: Blank verse
Saw a man at a snowy bus stop
Tall and lean
Black as black can be
Probably in his Sunday best
This Monday morning.
My guess Sudanese.
Here on compassionate grounds
Home country ripped apart
Tribal and religious strife.
What might he have seen Lord?
What atrocities and robbery?
What loved ones abandoned?
With no other apparent choice?
Does he have English
Can he handle this
Awful Waterloo cold
This awful Western smugness
To the new and misunderstood?
Help him Father
If it is a search
In faltering words
For a job
For some needed training
For a place to bed down.
In Jesus’ name.
And I drive by
These careful words and images
My only coins
In the stranger’s cup.
Until perhaps next time…
Categories:
relocation, christian, courage, immigration, prayer,
Form: Ballad
Moved everything here to be with you,
What more did you want me to do,
Let my job go so I could be in your world,
Then my settled life became unfurled,
These eyes watch you turn my world to an end,
These arms long to hold you again,
But hurtin’s on me yeah, so what can I say,
You’re a rich girl and you’ve gone too far
cuz you know it don’t matter anyway.
Oh I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain,
I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end,
I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
But I always thought that i’d see you again.
Should I stay or should I go...
American woman get away from me,
American woman mama let me be,
Don’t come hanging around my door,
Don’t want to see your face no more,
Coloured lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else’s eyes
So country road take me home, to the place where I belong,
Back to my homeland, all alone, singing my own song.
Written September 28, 2011
Includes the following songs;
These Eyes
Rich Girl
Fire and Rain
Should I Stay or Should I Go
American Woman
Country road
Written for Contest"Sing a Song for Me"
Won 2nd Place
Categories:
relocation, adventure, angst, lost love,
Form: Rhyme