Short Donegal Poems

I'm overtaken
'Tis nigh season of trav'ling
And I alight again, Love
O how I despair 
To wander ancient isles
Alone among the great hordes

How far November
When to our farm, our boys, and
To your arms I return, Love
O sweet Donegal
My home and winter's respite
'Til I alight again, Love

August 18, 2017...

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Being from beautiful Donegal
Each day in summer I am enthralled
As soon as I see the sun shining,
Under blue skies I can be pining
To be out and about with top down.
In my little car I whiz around.
Finding back roads leading to the sea,
Undulating hills fly beneath me.
Lucky little local tourist me.



25/09/2019
Queen Of Day 9 x 9 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: charles messina...

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A line of stones;
the threat of so much space,
a fallen horizon.

Salt grass
coarse with rain,
nights heavy with tides

and the battered story
of the sea,the broken gong
of the moon, strange friends.

Then,I knew not what to call
the rough curves of peat,
slight of the sea,

a bodhran wind over the rocks.
When I am no more;
let me melt in the rain

of this cold coast,
its own name shaped,
the seagull`s call....

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P erfect afternoon although the
R ain clouds looked ominous over Tory.
E ven still we ventured out as the darkness
G athered behind our foot prints on one of the
N icest beaches in North Donegal.
A nd while the thunder clapped and
N attering seagulls bolted, 
T houghtlessly we dandered on.

P assing time pleasantly chatting
A nd banishing the blood result blues.
U ntil we both were saturated when
S uddenly in unison pregnant clouds
E mptied their ruptured waters upon us....

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