Category: Poetry

ALZHEIMER’S

. I think I just fell over, son, I really can’t be sure; Perhaps I just lay down awhile, I think it is the floor. Oh, I wish that I were younger, Less tired and bemused; Why do I, son, fall over? And why am I confused? . […]

Ma Vourneen (My Darling) + VIDEO

When time and distance separate us, Then you will find the spirit of our togetherness, In a glass of wine. My darling, make it a long-stemmed glass, To remind you that even a minute apart is the longest one. . Fill it to its very brim to symbolize, […]

WHITE SLAVES OF EUROPE

WHITE SLAVES OF EUROPE . We’re not so very different, From what was long ago, The harvest then the people, Our own the cruellest foe, They shipped us off to colonies, Indentured, exiled, slaves, Their gulag and plantations, They worked us to our graves. . Nothing much has […]

TOMMY’S KARMA

TOMMY’S KARMA . Tommy reneged on his friends in the Reich But my, what a price he has paid, Fooled into thinking his saviours were foes, Now he lies on the bed he has made. . His offspring are brainwashed, They welcome as friends, Invaders who covet his […]

ALZHEIMER’S

ALZHEIMER’S . I think I just fell over, son, I really can’t be sure; Perhaps I just lay down awhile, I think it is the floor. Oh, I wish that I was younger, Less tired and bemused; Why do I, son, fall over? And why am I confused? […]

THE FIRING SQUAD

THE FIRING SQUAD . Lost in time, his mother’s words, When but an arms-held boy, Remembered sweet the lullabies, That brought the infant joy. . The years of boyhood, river stream, Wherever youth will pause and dream, To breathe their true love’s sonnet, verse, When posies fall from […]