tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83550977135042480932024-03-08T05:04:55.984-08:00PoemsPadraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-68336214257871946342016-06-22T05:02:00.000-07:002016-06-22T05:02:42.046-07:00nectar for fooda rabbit speaks:<br />
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<span data-offset-key="71p4p-0-0"><span data-text="true">he wrote poems about me</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1l5br-0-0"><span data-text="true">before i was kitten-born</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3p06n-0-0"><span data-text="true">black ink, no taste, smell</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dgqju-0-0"><span data-text="true">on paper, tree-like, thin</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3todk-0-0"><span data-text="true">rustles beneath feet.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4b2g2-0-0"><span data-text="true">i did not hear them.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6h47q-0-0"><span data-text="true">i lived, green fields</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8uhh4-0-0"><span data-text="true">slopes</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="24bhu-0-0"><span data-text="true">field banks</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1prka-0-0"><span data-text="true">burrows dark, warm.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b503-0-0"><span data-text="true">but i sensed what he said</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fj13i-0-0"><span data-text="true">he gave us names, lives</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4mhtt-0-0"><span data-text="true">singled us to</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="eb2js-0-0"><span data-text="true">within our kind.</span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5fc8p-0-0">
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="vbpu-0-0">
<span data-offset-key="vbpu-0-0"><span data-text="true">now i am alone</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5pncg-0-0"><span data-text="true">live lone life.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="34hek-0-0"><span data-text="true">myxie, he calls me</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3lmg5-0-0"><span data-text="true">poem words</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5abim-0-0"><span data-text="true">rabbits sniff, smell</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5dhsj-0-0"><span data-text="true">butt blind, sickened </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="af2oq-0-0"><span data-text="true">rabbit from my home.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e83u6-0-0"><span data-text="true">i will die.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="94dg8-0-0"><span data-text="true">i eat bright colours</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="qris-0-0"><span data-text="true">garden dark, dawn</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7hnu5-0-0"><span data-text="true">petal flavoured scent</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ph2-0-0"><span data-text="true">i am king, god</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e3uhf-0-0"><span data-text="true">nectar for food.</span></span></div>
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Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-27969339882975280942016-06-17T10:13:00.000-07:002016-08-29T08:57:27.541-07:00I sing to the air<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A bird
speaks:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I slouch,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Feasted
on the stale discards of past,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Towards
dawn. I am wing-tired, slow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A body,
prime-passed, not now dead,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Long
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
birds do, their always living,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Being,
since the hour birth begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And other
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Remember
soon!" I do not know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As day
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">'Round me
- again I do not know - </span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Are
roof-tops, grey, acute, spartan,</span></div>
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green bush, barbed as dwellings are,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We watch
the ever-present night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
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</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
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with seeing, sight of things.</span></div>
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comes from the east, jewelled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like
Juliet - a star of day.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
slaughters what it finds, rest's sleep,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scavenges
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night, recently gloried, fat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Is gone.
All dreams, shivering, pass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And then
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wait. I
will remember. Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Until a
voice - I know that voice.</span></div>
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is joy-ordinary </span></div>
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about. The very air breathes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Delicious
life, speaks memories,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">High
shrilling, not now forgotten.</span></div>
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reply, gladly reply,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Remember
the known, always known,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I
sing to the air, loudly,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I sing
day's coming to the air.</span></div>
Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-63948613634392531602016-02-17T03:26:00.001-08:002016-02-17T03:26:08.470-08:00Jerusalem MaybeJerusalem Maybe<br />
<br />
I made Britain from what I saw,<br />
Sanding paint, breathing toxic dust.<br />
It shaped before me by chance hand,<br />
Stubborn remains of what had been.<br />
And its edges, coloured and ragged,<br />
Jutted from land into a sea<br />
Of cold, clean, sand-smooth, grey plaster.<br />
<br />
And then the island shape was gone,<br />
Cleansed from sight, like imaginings.<br />
And I painted anew, slow, white,<br />
Deliberate strokes, spread even,<br />
Equally flat, smooth edge to smooth.<br />
And what I created as God,<br />
King, painter, was a plain, white wall.<br />
<br />
I wondered then, my labours done,<br />
If this new land, formed above dust,<br />
Perfect, Jerusalem Maybe,<br />
Was the space we might occupy,<br />
If one day, all that makes us real,<br />
Different and original,<br />
Is allowed forever to pass.<br />
<br />Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-13146120433845042942015-06-22T07:47:00.001-07:002015-06-22T07:47:48.919-07:00Romeo Still<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
You wore varicose veins beneath your dress<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />Lumped flesh, Rosaline, and a flowered silk.<br />Your hair, you garnished in a purple dye<br />Youth carried on, recycled for that time.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">
Together, you sat on a home-made stage<br />Piano played before out tea arrived.<br />We watched on, vacant all; ladies, urine stale<br />Gentlemen staring silence in staled suits.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
I loved you, Rosaline, Romeo still<br />You were alive, though mirrored, shadowed so<br />And when your coarse voice had sung, it was me<br />My applause you heard, shuffled feet ignored.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
Juliet rescued me, my Rosaline<br />Dressed in home-blue, perfumed in cigarette<br />Her gravelled voice rang loudly as we danced<br />Shuffling side to side, almost turned about</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
And when her pilgrim's touch did pass along<br />Kettles of sweet, milk tea, champagne tonight<br />It was soft words, forgotten Rosaline<br />That lifted my feet, found my sullied seat.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
There, Rosaline, Romeo still, I sat<br />Staring long silence, as gentlemen must<br />Our brief romance was a forgotten, gone<br />Some pains of love, love-deeds passed to past thought</div>
</div>
Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-29382407522373393032015-06-09T01:53:00.001-07:002015-06-09T01:53:54.195-07:00I am Cat<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
I am God, said the cat<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />Lying on my back<br />Absolute relax<br />Idle-claw stretching<br />Stretching idle-claw</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">
I am Queen, said the cat<br />All this world is mine<br />In Summer heat sublime<br />Soft-paw preening<br />Preening soft-paw</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
I am Rule, said the cat<br />Warm stone underneath<br />Flesh food at my feet<br />Play-flesh teasing<br />Teasing play-flesh</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
I am Death, said the cat<br />Lightening attack<br />Live bird on your back<br />Flower-bird breathing<br />Breathing flower-bird</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
I am Bird, said the bird<br />Miraculous escape<br />Fresh sun on my face<br />Flower-bird soaring<br />Soaring flower-bird</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
I am Cat, said the cat<br />Rising to my feet<br />Bare stone underneath<br />Dry-food waiting<br />Waiting dry-food</div>
</div>
Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-51091367980146615412015-05-28T03:29:00.000-07:002015-05-28T03:29:17.597-07:00A November Sonnet<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">It is enough, perhaps, that you are near;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">You bring a moist caress, a seeming sweat,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And even lovers loved learn to forget</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Those other touches they once held so dear.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But November, my love, believe, sincere,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">That it is you, your dusk, your always wet</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">That pains me most, once gone, ensures regret,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And makes of festive dates an empty cheer.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">So, ninth month in name, eleventh in time</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">May you always remain, embrace with chill;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And if your weeks should pass, your days should end</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Leave something of your cold, your damp sublime,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">That mortals, such as I, might live until</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">You come again, return to me, my friend.</span>Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-82417467953859712082015-05-22T05:53:00.001-07:002015-06-09T11:04:05.609-07:00Flight from Manchester<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">It cost a fortune to be there, flying from</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Manchester's airport. I paid in soul first. Pangs.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Birth. Growth. Reluctant ageing. Reluctant age.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And I carry my payment all about me.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Signs of Dublin, other streets, daily trodden</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">On, leaving memories and forgotten things.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And afterwards, other charges, more, unseen.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">An airport tax, a security guard, proud,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Friendly in his voice, eyeing the suspicion,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Offence of water. Recently bought. Caesar</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Paid a fortune to buy this unwelcome thing.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"I'm afraid you can't take that liquid through, sir."</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Water is no terrorist. Freedom fighter</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Rather. Liberating flesh, keeping it young.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But, Judas without a kiss, I leave its crime</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Unquestioned. Hand water to death. Its end-time.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Inside, treachery forgot, just memories,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I pay more, more money-fortunes on the same.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The taxi-driver knew this. Cost-a-fortune</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Of things. He flew Cheap Air. Paid more to return.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And afternoons drives littered streets, crumpled shapes,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">People in theatre doors: 'Best show in town.'</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">We pass, forgetting now, beneath spring-shine sun,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Talk, Saturday afternoon, a sky-blue team.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">He'd "seen it all before, you see. The despair.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">City going down. Sold out. In all his years</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Can't complain now. Treated well. Fans. Kids go free.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">We're not used to success, but". Me neither, I say.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">They're billion billionaires own his team.</span></div>
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I sweat, spring-shine sun. Pay a fortune on clothes.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I fly Cheap Air too. Just like him. Jet-setting</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">As masses do. Save a fortune. Vodka-coke</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Ladies, from a bottle, "not his business",</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Go to Milan, "mix it in toilets", giggle</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Without water. I travel on to Dublin,</span></div>
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Loud holiday hats, girls in pink, boys in black.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">They talk numbers: one; two; three; four; five; and down</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In one. Loud talk of youthful pleasures, their own.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I age. I do not eat in Hard Rock Cafe</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And afters of lager-beer. Always comes up</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In morning. I think rather, cost-a-fortune,</span></div>
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Of Dublin streets, long trodden, daily cleaned.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Until we're there, passenger scramble. Bend. Wait.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Race start. I might spend a fortune of time, sat,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Cool in my seat; and might save a fortune too,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">No energies spent. But I observe, aged soul,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">That cost-a-fortunes, save-a-fortunes still cost.</span></div>
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And thought-done, collect things, forget much, go home.</div>
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Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-40906351627156467052015-05-22T05:48:00.003-07:002015-05-22T05:48:52.495-07:00Boscean Birthdays<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Alexander, tall, proud, pronounced in green, brown</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Off-white; the yellow-flowered gold of prickled gorse;</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">A free-singing, morning thrush, antheming; and fairy-</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Robins, tits, sparrows, flickering bush to bush,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Playing hide-and-seek with black, invisible</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Birds; chough, gull, soaring, calling. Such is the</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Decoration of fields, fields in which white-tailed</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Bunnies skip, cows, black, brown, speckled, moove,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">A lone white horse - much helloed - stands indifferent.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">All of these, and more: Hello Bulls; Hello Pony; Hello</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Fabulous Day; I would gladly gift to you.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I would wrap them in skies: blue; grey; grey-clouded;</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Misted and unseen; seen, removed from our eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I would sound your birth in rough gale or silence.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And toast it, white foam, or stillness of the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But it is enough, you say, as with me</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">That I am yours - we love; and this being so, this day</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Our days, Boscean Birthdays, are forever glorious.</span></div>
Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-77706248916764146382015-05-22T05:45:00.002-07:002015-06-23T03:05:25.045-07:00Bleak Beauty<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Mine was no tin-mine. Nothing grand, stark,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Brazen autumn red, evening sun aglow.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Brick upon stone upon stone, high rise</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Above gorse, tawny fern, Cornish cliff.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">As if briefly infinite, eternal.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Mine was just a path, an ordering of mud.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Unearthing stone. Shifting, straining unearthed stone</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Inches, feet, yards. A tiny expanse unending,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Ended. And digging, the fertile give, orange-brown clay,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Through worm-aired muck to ungiving, granite-stop.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And it was not mine then, just earth. Silent.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Noise teeming. Life-teeming. Above, below, within.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Atlantic storm sound, galed. Bending, bent life</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Answering, however silent, however noise-rich</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The question that I, mine, miners, builders ask</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">As children, guardianed, 'don't touch', touch.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Fingers immediate touching, taste, foul-taste, sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Shifting grains of land, building stone-paths, brick mines</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And passing on. Built beauties present, fading,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Untouching. The bleak beauty. Remain. Weather on.</span></div>
Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-38168660142797280542012-08-17T02:21:00.001-07:002012-08-17T02:21:36.404-07:00Mary's Morning Poem<br />
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<i> Silent too the crash of ocean
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<i> For when you call to me, my love<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> The sound is all<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> And you and I are lost in fairy
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<i>Mary's Morning Poem</i></div>
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<i>The Pig Myths</i></div>
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Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-13586033209557338702012-08-13T04:37:00.002-07:002012-08-13T04:37:48.811-07:00Mary's Wild<br />
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<i> And cottages of sweetly scented
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<i> In idle bliss, with you I kiss<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> Sweet love’s perfume our
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<i> And naked ever in your touch<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> Come touch with me our raging
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<i> Shepherd storms in our cottage
home<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Padraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355097713504248093.post-13094669403598842082011-11-23T23:18:00.001-08:002011-11-23T23:18:25.672-08:00New College LaneCome walk with me<br />
Through alleys, valleys, rivers<br />
And Streams<br />
My mind is ours<br />
Or ours<br />
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Come hand in hand<br />
Down New College Lane<br />
The skies transparencies<br />
Are freePadraig De Brunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18200495075452185835noreply@blogger.com0