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Aul Fionn McCoolI / In a land of myths, from the jaded isle, / Great stories are told of the brave and the guile.
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Dec 16, 2012
Ballyshannon BrownThey look upon your brindle bake / and break the silence with their spite / it whips across the troubled air
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May 16, 2013
BarnamsIn the glass I glimpsed her eyes / they flitted over dappled cream, / but expectation became a cloud
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Mar 11, 2013
DeciduousOctober brings a flurry of trigger-happy handymen / to carpet over the potholes, puddles and last year’s cloth / with that emerald bract that’s rusted in seasons past and
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May 20, 2013
ElkMounted in Ulster Mausoleum / you greet me with your rotted smile, / with oaken bones splinted into pose
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Jun 19, 2013
Enniskillen 3Mauve block of US is / frozen butter on soft bread / it won’t spread smoothly.
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May 17, 2013
FlagstonesThe mossy stitch of a concrete quilt can / cosy and tuck the gummy road. And should / we scrawl upon patchwork step, catching
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Feb 10, 2013
From a Bench on Cliff WalkPeople in the sand / The tide, it heals the fresh scars / And leaves their salvage.
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Dec 18, 2012
GAA SundayI often pondered why we wore our studded boots, / When the mud was impenetrable with morning frost. / The same that misted our breath before our eyes,
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Dec 17, 2012
Gerry's RevolutionColonel Hathi with a hurl / that weighs in his illicit hands / like an AR18 play-park swing
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May 19, 2013
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