Tag: The Weary Blues

  • “A Life Unanswered” and other poems by Susan Kelly

    The Bittersweet Her passion was historical biscuit tins or so he’d tell visitors who marvelled at the growing stacks of embossed lids that glinting with landscapes, landmarks locations she hadn’t seen, he thought it best if the world came to her. He liked her to display these gifts he brought back from places he visited…

  • “The Reading” and “The Back Bedroom” by Sarah O’Connor

      The Reading   In the mock parlour room, people come and go. No one speaks of Michaelangelo.   The words are thin and the wit is dull. Arrogance saturates the air. No lull.   The Liffey water turns green, olive, matt black. The lights upon it are buttered mosaic, forth and back.   The…

  • ‘Popping Candy’ and other poems by Sarah O’Connor

    Poemín   This poem Will be Exquisitely short   And   Dinkily dedicated To you.   Popularity, Personified   Smugness was her scarf, Inked pinkly, cerisely, She stroked it smugly. Smugness was her scarf.   Idleness was her chignon, Gleaming, burnished, shiny She fondled it idly. Idleness was her chignon.   Cuteness was her weapon,…