Writezone Poetry Featured Reads
- Unstable Time (Patricia Byrne)
Poem inspired by painting viewed at Limerick City Gallery.
- Scattery Island (Patricia Byrne)
Poem on the occasion of sailing on the Shannon Estuary.
- CEILIDH (James Wilson)
This one recalls the feeling and spirit of playing at a session in Ireland, Corvallis, Oregon, or wherever one can find people interested in traditional music. I got my taste from my father Arthur James Wilson from Mayo who played one-row button accordion. Although I went through my rock phase, I returned to the pleasures of jigs and reels and am happy to take out my guitar, mandolin, or tin whistle wherever, and whenever, I can.
- Moment of my Death (Dolores Duggan)
Gazing
- Kingfisher (Tommy Murray)
For weeks I waited And watched, eyes patrolling the baldness Beyond the reed beds and the rocks Consoled only by the thought that You were never really a poser That except for those rare concessions To farmers and fishermen Between total eclipses And the occasional cat-walk You might not even e
- the voice (Sarah Bailey)
A poem about my grandfather, who recently passed away. He had been a sailor in his younger days, and frequently told us grandkids tales of the sea and took us to Battery Point in Portishead, Bristol, to show us the ships.
- Remember (Durlabh Singh)
Continuing in Shelley's footsteps, ' In Defence of Poetry'
- The Colony (Tommy Murray)
A dark view of nature
- IN OUR HEADS (Kieran Furey)
- To help us get through life, I suspect that we all indulge in a fair amount of day-dreaming.
- Paradox (James Wilson)
- This poem addresses the choices we make in life and their often long-lasting benefits and/or consequences. Sometimes seemingly mundane decisions have much effect.
- The Aran Islands (Kieran Furey)
- Though I lived in Galway for five years in the 1970s, I only ever managed one day-trip to the Aran Islands. When I left UCG, I promised myself that one day I'd go back for a leisurely look at all three islands. It took me twenty-five years to get around to it. These three poems resulted from that visit, as a way of remembering the Aran Islands in case I never go back again.
- Jennifer on Ice (Kevin McGreer)
- A girl I once knew.
- Untitled (Barry Ahern)
- For Molly
- Poem (Barry Ahern)
- Telling stories around a fire place and seeing pictures in its flames.
- IN A SMALL CAFE (Kieran Furey)
- I like to think of this poem as a harmless little squib about a harassed office worker who goes off to a cafe and, basically, forgets to come back. What she does is, I suppose, a bit like poetry itself: a small assertion of a kind of freedom.
- Marilyn (richie mccann)
- The initials J.F.are significant here
- Rhapsody riparian (richie mccann)
- Dawn of Winter
- Kathleen (Jane Clarke)
- This poem is about my neighbour Kathleen who was a pied piper for animals. It seemed both appropriate and magical that an animal saluted her departure from this world in May 2006.
- SOLDIERS' SONG (Kieran Furey)
- This poem looks at how a whole people can find itself on the wrong side of history. Concretely, it looks at how the Irish have come full circle from being among the colonially oppressed to being among the oppressors. It was published twice in 2006: first in 'ROSCOMMON LIFE' (the 2006/2007 Yearbook of the Roscommon Association, Dublin), and more recently in the 'Longford Leader'.
- Plethora (James Wilson)
- This is my little rant against the monoculturalism/ globalization that is making things much less interesting in so many ways.
- Temporary Adobe (James Wilson)
- This is a snapshot in time epiphany that gives a glimpse into an eye-opening reality. The two pictured here have been here before and will be again as they search for better lives in a soulless desert.
- thrush egg (richie mccann)
- Chance
- Driven (Eileen Reynolds)
- An encounter on a Ryanair flight
- TRUE MASTERPIECE (Sophia Flot-Warner)
- A vivid, colorful look at The Creator and His varied and artistic creations .
- How Rome Rises as it Ruins (Kieran Furey)
- This is a short anti-war poem based on, and including a quotation from, Virgil. It was first published in 'Poetry Ireland Review' 2003 (Issue number 76). I wrote it at the time the Iraq war seemed inevitable, and the destruction of Afghanistan was already beginning.
- A Father's Lament (Kieran Furey)
- My son is thirteen. For the purposes of this poem, I imagined him at twenty-three. It was first published in 'Poetry Ireland Review' in August 2006.
- Eventually (Damien Muldoon)
- Summer ended, my little dog died and the whole world felt empty.
- Close (Joe Jennings)
- Overlooking the bay.
- On nights like these (Barry Ahern)
- we often spend time thinking most of what we are deprived.
- Alternate Landscapes (Barry Ahern)
- alternate landscapes
- A Forever Lifetime (Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick)
- about life, love and death!
- Home Without A Home (Tim Connelly)
- A poem about how people are used and discarded after service to one's nation.
- Cottage (Michael Massey)
- All over the countryside we see the crumbling ruins of little houses.This poem takes a return journey to one such cottage.
- Siren Song / Hexenkessel (Lorne Patterson)
- Two love poems - of a sort
- Coracon (richie mccann)
- I would say a kind of... mood poem?
- A Wet Funeral (vincent marmion)
- Funeral
- Lost (Michael Massey)
- A reflective poem arising from an observing the natural world.
- Autumn (Michael Massey)
- a love poem in an idyllic setting.
- A type of love (Michael Doheny)
- Maybe this is a poem about love and sanity.
- Quiet Nation (Barry Ahern)
- A snapshot of a quiet night out.
- Progenitor of Rome (Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick)
- Some reflections on mythology
- Three poems (Colette Nic Aodha)
- A sequence of poetry written in Mayo this summer
- The Old Oak (Barry Ahern)
- Nature alive, enduring and rejuvenating.
- Galway in the Summer (Joe Jennings)
- Impressions of Galway City in the summertime
- Bog Oak (Barry Ahern)
- Tree found in bog used for dendrochronology
- A Real Galwegian (Kevin Higgins)
- This is a poem from my first collection, 'The Boy With No Face', which was published by Salmon in February 2005.
- Dreams Before The Growing Season Of Grass (p.d. lyons)
- Thinking about someone I used to know in another country
- Lovers (Marie Lynam Fitzpatrick)
- I wrote ""Lovers"" in 2004, It's about life and love and birth and maybe rebirth also.
- A selection of my poems (Patrick Chapman)
TURING'S APPLE It was only after he had shared His knowledge that he ate the poisoned fruit. The garden, having no more use for him, Destroyed the one who made the weapon sharp, Dissolved the bond of love that spoke in code, Denied the secret namer of the world. FREE RANGE The knots of fat, connecting tissue Webbe
- The Terrible Beauty at Ninety (Damien Muldoon)
- A commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising. With a difference!
- Assemblage While Driving (George Eklund)
- This piece is a step forward into more metaphorical play, and associative leaping.
- Toiler (Jaacob Thomas)
- The toiler in the fields
- To Bapu (Jaacob Thomas)
- To a late, great man.
- THE ADDICT (Ed Buckley)
Dedicated
To all who are addicted- This is Our Land (Barry Ahern)
- How celtic symbols are present in urban settings and ""Irishness"", is not just for those in rural regions
- I Still Bleed (Joanne Ramilo-Cantiller)
- Lies led to the death of a love. After many years, it is still difficult to forgive.
- A Bridge in Bandon (Ed Buckley)
- A scene observed in Bandon while early for a meeting on a bright sunny spring morning.
- Protest Poem (Damien Muldoon)
- I watched a film of the 1969 Woodstock festival and was struck by how pro-active young people were at that time compared to young people now. This poem was just my belated contribution to the revolution.
- Still Blooming (Damien Muldoon)
- Celebration of Joyce on the hundreth anniversary of Bloomsday
- Comfort (Barry Ahern)
- Poem about hope
- LOOK AT THE MOON (Natalie McNabb)
- A man's simple words about the moon change someone's thoughts about him forever.
- Half-way (Barry Ahern)
- A poem about maturing
- AT SPRING'S FEET (Natalie McNabb)
- A worn, wooden rowboat longs to play upon Spring waves...
- The Answer (caroline brady)
- A poem about returning home.
- Can You Hear Me? (antoinette Marshall)
- Unable to sleep, I am talking in my head to my daughter who is not with us any longer.
- Seasons of the Family Name (David Barber)
- Seasons of the family
- Memories (heather burdette)
- a poem about memory
- Soldiers (Megan Leitch)
- A poem that parallels the dispute on one's head to dispute on a battlefiled, ie between soldiers. It compares the indecision in one's mind to a battle situation, wherein neither side can win, as there is no compromise, nor any reciprocity.
- Dancing with a Fallen Angel (Kevin McGreer)
- An encounter in a dance club.
- I Write (J. L. O'Hannigan)
- I wrote this wishful bit after days of writing, sleeping, waking, eating, and writing again.
- An Evil Fate � The Suicide (J B)
- As if writen by the dead recounting life with prologue.
- Pale Light (Antoinette Marshall)
- A ray of light in a cold grey winter sky reunited me in spirit with my daughter and an animal that passed away. Life and death carry on in a continuity...
- Musty Old Room (martin mc grath)
- Past Lives
- At the Bus Stop (antoinette Marshall)
- Waiting at a bus stop in a bleak London street, I started thinking about the real meaing of place names, and I saw that elderly little woman, or did I conjure her up?..
- Each Breath I Cannot Hold (George Eklund)
- poem
- THE PERFECT CRIME (Mark White)
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- Questing.. (Jaacob Thomas)
- Still thinking about the 'big' issues.
- Frozen In Time (Melena Rose Gullett)
- A tribute to a long forgotten and abandoned boarding school. A monument hidden beneath a shroud of memories, secrets, and mystery.
- STARLINGS (Mark White)
- ...
- OLD HOLBORN (Mark White)
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- THE HALLS OF HOLLES STREET (Mark White)
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- UNITY (Maeve Brady)
- Haiku
- Patchwork of Love (Melena Rose Gullett)
- A tribute to my Grandmother that provided warmth not only with love and wisdom but also with her quilts.
- NOW (Maeve Brady)
- Haiku
- ON SEEING HIM AGAIN (Joanne Ramilo-Cantiller)
- Pain will always accompany forbidden love.
- Shore Thing (Mark Cassidy)
- The unease of being away from home...
