Tag: poetry
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leaf // settles published ucd pandemic archive
From the Lares Series. V. leaf // Settles Jewelling | nowhere her Garnets tempering | Scarlet on steel the Sky— a Leaf there is © Chris Murray Published Poetry in Lockdown; A Pandemic Archive, UCD Online URL: https://libguides.ucd.ie/lockdownpoetry The Lares series was first published in The Indelible Literary Journal, January 2021 and was written in…
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‘hunger’, and: ‘ceremony’, and : ‘suspend i’ published ditch poetry
hunger outside the ragged bird tears dead flies from the window nets and it is not clothed right – it claws the glass suspend I from the mirror architrave float down silken threads they are not blackened yet from the branches they reach down laden with fruit out on the limb birds beat them for…
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‘Acceptance’ and other poems by Deirdre Gallagher
Words The crisp dew of words, that sing in spring Jubilant is their ring. The soft gentle breeze of words which appease, please Leave tickles of tease. The blazing heat of words which incite, ignite, Defiant in their fight. The strong gale of words that wail, prevail, Woeful is their tale. The cold depth of…
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“The Wind of the World” & other poems by Müesser Yeniay
The Wind of the World For my grandmother you are under the earth I am on the earth with your body that is tired of carrying the wind of this world -a stone in the middle of my heart has been rolling without stop- I don’t know where you have gone the only thing which…
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Poems from “Off Duty” by Katie Donovan
Wedding “Hasty,” the judge mocked until he read the letter from the consultant, his jaded face changing to pity. We got the green light then, to marry in a hurry. We turned up in our jeans and limped through the ceremony – upsetting the officiating lady, determined to make this a special occasion.…
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‘Cleaving a Puzzle-Tree’ and other poems by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Cleaving a Puzzle-Tree 1. I didn’t see my grandmother’s tree in Chile, araucaria araucana, though they grow tall there and are many. I must have walked under them every day, tripped over their seeds, but I didn’t think of her, oceans away, standing in a square of green, raking leaves around her monkey…
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‘Fable’ and ‘Oh Cherry Trees You are Too White For My Heart’ by Doris Lessing
Originally posted on Poethead by Chris Murray: Fable When I look back I seem to remember singing. Yet it was always silent in that long warm room. Impenetrable, those walls, we thought, Dark with ancient shields.The light Shone on the head of a girl or young limbs Spread carelessly. And the low voices Rose in…
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‘The House of Altogether Nothing’ & Other poems by Jan Sand
The House of Altogether Nothing The countryside in which it stands Is broken with large jagged rocks. Its trees are dark, from northern lands, Whose branches scratch the sky; boney bough knocks One against the other. Cold winds finger through Odd strands of captured human hair, Torn newspaper strips look as if they grew Amongst…
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Poetry: A Poetry Series at Deep Water Literary Journal
what is beneath ? a scrap of satin – some wood and what is beneath the wood ? dirt, the earth, it is cold is it alive ? it contains the stir of flowers it contains the whispering grass and above it all ? . some turf the blue…
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Three Poems by Müesser Yeniay
Flower Village I learnt how to stand put from a flower Saw no other sun drank no other water I recognized my roots as a village my earth, the sky Seasons passed above me a nest of ants, bosom friends I learnt how to be a flower solely… solely, standing put…
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