shamrock's ramblings

Observations, feelings, ramblings and doubtless some crap. From the tired brain of an old 'Paddy'.

Stories in this set

Dancing Aphrodite (IP)

Submitted on July 13, 2009 - 20:07 | 484 reads

Dreams

Submitted on May 16, 2009 - 13:35 | 619 reads

Photo of an Old Refugee (reworked)

Submitted on February 3, 2009 - 21:05 | 587 reads

Spring In The Air

Submitted on March 2, 2009 - 18:08 | 608 reads

A Giant Among Men

Submitted on January 22, 2009 - 20:13 | 577 reads

A Long Time Gone!

Submitted on July 24, 2009 - 17:19 | 476 reads

A Mother's Loss

Submitted on December 10, 2009 - 21:00 | 386 reads

An old battered suitcase

Submitted on March 28, 2009 - 12:03 | 569 reads

Animal Farm

Submitted on January 20, 2012 - 10:41 | 160 reads

Another Mourning

Submitted on March 5, 2010 - 12:11 | 335 reads

At the end of a Summer day

Submitted on July 2, 2010 - 11:34 | 276 reads

Autumn Invades

Submitted on September 24, 2009 - 11:35 | 450 reads

Autumn Leaves (Goodbye Mum)

Submitted on January 9, 2009 - 00:11 | 613 reads

Back Home Again

Submitted on January 17, 2009 - 09:16 | 556 reads

Back to School

Submitted on September 2, 2009 - 12:49 | 455 reads

Bag Lady

Submitted on January 30, 2009 - 11:37 | 591 reads

Bag Lady 2 (Tidied up)

Submitted on June 24, 2009 - 18:20 | 450 reads

Be Strong!

Submitted on January 3, 2011 - 16:55 | 180 reads

Behind Bars!

Submitted on December 12, 2010 - 19:00 | 243 reads

Bells

Submitted on January 6, 2011 - 01:57 | 346 reads

Birthday Magic

Submitted on October 9, 2009 - 19:59 | 426 reads

Books, Comics and Wooden Guns

Submitted on February 1, 2009 - 20:01 | 624 reads

Breakup

Submitted on January 18, 2009 - 19:06 | 592 reads

Chill Factor

Submitted on December 31, 2009 - 14:43 | 376 reads

Choices?

Submitted on September 26, 2009 - 09:31 | 635 reads

Christmas beatings

Submitted on January 21, 2011 - 23:45 | 164 reads

Christmas Cheer

Submitted on December 31, 2009 - 20:05 | 414 reads

Clerical Abuse

Submitted on January 9, 2010 - 02:22 | 330 reads

Co-operation I.P.

Submitted on May 16, 2009 - 10:14 | 526 reads

Costa Dreams

Submitted on July 25, 2009 - 18:12 | 439 reads

Death of a smile

Submitted on September 25, 2009 - 12:10 | 422 reads

Death's door

Submitted on October 26, 2009 - 14:01 | 461 reads

Destiny

Submitted on February 25, 2011 - 19:55 | 198 reads

Do you remember?

Submitted on May 31, 2009 - 08:42 | 516 reads

Don't let your sad regrets be your reward

Submitted on July 20, 2011 - 12:29 | 115 reads

Easter (I.P.)

Submitted on April 12, 2009 - 08:20 | 539 reads

Echoes in mind

Submitted on April 21, 2010 - 13:20 | 324 reads

Empty

Submitted on July 15, 2009 - 21:26 | 511 reads

Famine

Submitted on January 10, 2009 - 12:20 | 607 reads

Fantasy

Submitted on February 25, 2011 - 20:04 | 176 reads

Fear, Fate and Love

Submitted on November 19, 2010 - 23:35 | 203 reads

First Day 1959

Submitted on January 21, 2009 - 18:40 | 629 reads

Firstborn

Submitted on February 19, 2009 - 22:53 | 538 reads

Flickering

Submitted on October 15, 2010 - 13:00 | 214 reads

Forgotten fruit

Submitted on August 12, 2009 - 23:49 | 484 reads

French Kisses (I.P.)

Submitted on July 14, 2009 - 11:52 | 510 reads

Friday 13th March 2009 - Spring

Submitted on March 2, 2009 - 02:37 | 552 reads

Full of Empty

Submitted on February 27, 2011 - 13:20 | 178 reads

Future history!

Submitted on January 9, 2010 - 11:43 | 319 reads

Goodbye Note

Submitted on June 26, 2009 - 10:35 | 555 reads

Goodbye Note! I.P.

Submitted on December 6, 2009 - 16:35 | 424 reads

Gossip

Submitted on June 6, 2010 - 20:02 | 319 reads

Hindsight

Submitted on June 10, 2009 - 19:05 | 462 reads

Homeless

Submitted on December 31, 2010 - 20:39 | 183 reads

Hopelessness

Submitted on September 7, 2009 - 20:08 | 441 reads

How?

Submitted on April 9, 2009 - 08:26 | 560 reads

I am a Sixties Child

Submitted on January 9, 2010 - 21:03 | 339 reads

I am no more

Submitted on January 7, 2009 - 20:11 | 615 reads

I remember

Submitted on October 8, 2009 - 23:18 | 416 reads

If

Submitted on January 25, 2009 - 21:32 | 623 reads

Insidious Disease

Submitted on January 18, 2009 - 19:15 | 619 reads

Insomnia

Submitted on July 10, 2011 - 18:51 | 91 reads

Ireland

Submitted on February 9, 2009 - 22:53 | 590 reads

Is it Fate?

Submitted on May 16, 2010 - 11:45 | 284 reads

Isn’t it the truth!

Submitted on January 20, 2009 - 23:48 | 577 reads

Jade; R.I.P.

Submitted on March 24, 2009 - 18:45 | 630 reads

January Escape

Submitted on January 12, 2009 - 13:18 | 547 reads

Jobless

Submitted on January 11, 2009 - 11:19 | 589 reads

Just a quick call..

Submitted on March 8, 2010 - 14:39 | 303 reads

Just Feeling Down

Submitted on August 15, 2009 - 00:27 | 550 reads

Leather Frames and Memories

Submitted on August 5, 2009 - 02:00 | 478 reads

Life’s a Stage

Submitted on May 23, 2009 - 20:00 | 577 reads

London 1960

Submitted on January 8, 2009 - 00:18 | 736 reads

London 1966

Submitted on January 11, 2009 - 20:52 | 586 reads

London Monday Morning 1967

Submitted on June 13, 2009 - 08:40 | 533 reads

Lonely

Submitted on January 16, 2009 - 21:27 | 577 reads

Lost Youth I.P.

Submitted on June 7, 2010 - 23:28 | 294 reads

Lucy

Submitted on September 28, 2009 - 23:50 | 555 reads

Lyrical I.P.

Submitted on December 13, 2009 - 17:38 | 425 reads

Mars Bar

Submitted on January 13, 2009 - 05:25 | 607 reads

Me and Old Blue Eyes

Submitted on August 2, 2009 - 12:15 | 486 reads

Morning

Submitted on January 9, 2009 - 00:17 | 590 reads

Mr. Black and White (Pre Mandela)

Submitted on January 11, 2009 - 11:03 | 618 reads

My Beautiful Little Boy (Haiku)

Submitted on January 12, 2009 - 13:39 | 598 reads

My Pen

Submitted on December 17, 2009 - 23:52 | 345 reads

My Pen

Submitted on February 3, 2011 - 12:48 | 193 reads

My Santa Suit

Submitted on December 28, 2009 - 01:03 | 478 reads

No Surprise

Submitted on May 12, 2011 - 18:11 | 226 reads

No Surrender

Submitted on December 21, 2010 - 11:48 | 261 reads

Oh heavy heart

Submitted on January 17, 2009 - 09:50 | 583 reads

Old Friends

Submitted on August 21, 2009 - 22:37 | 479 reads

On Nights Like This I.P.

Submitted on December 6, 2009 - 01:33 | 542 reads

Orphan

Submitted on June 25, 2009 - 19:24 | 445 reads

Over!

Submitted on September 23, 2010 - 18:18 | 284 reads

Paradoxically Speaking...

Submitted on September 13, 2009 - 19:58 | 430 reads

Paranoia?

Submitted on January 10, 2009 - 23:05 | 596 reads

Peace removed!

Submitted on July 10, 2009 - 17:29 | 591 reads

Peak of Peace

Submitted on July 14, 2009 - 16:16 | 495 reads

Perfect Symbol (March 17th)

Submitted on March 17, 2009 - 14:21 | 519 reads

Photo of an Old Refugee

Submitted on January 7, 2009 - 20:01 | 676 reads

Photographs and Memories

Submitted on June 11, 2009 - 10:19 | 598 reads

Pic Line Pervert

Submitted on August 12, 2009 - 01:34 | 453 reads

Play it again Sam!

Submitted on August 3, 2009 - 11:09 | 406 reads

Pop the Pill (Depression)

Submitted on May 29, 2009 - 20:11 | 534 reads

Red Dress and the Spiders' Web. (I.P.)

Submitted on January 24, 2009 - 01:57 | 655 reads

Remembered

Submitted on August 20, 2009 - 20:10 | 482 reads

Revisited

Submitted on April 15, 2011 - 17:57 | 158 reads

Saviour?

Submitted on February 12, 2010 - 09:02 | 359 reads

Scared

Submitted on January 8, 2011 - 02:48 | 216 reads

Seasoned Promises

Submitted on March 30, 2010 - 10:25 | 301 reads

Secondary School (Part 1)

Submitted on August 9, 2009 - 15:32 | 645 reads

See the funny side. I.P.

Submitted on January 19, 2010 - 13:23 | 411 reads

Separate Aisles

Submitted on February 4, 2011 - 12:04 | 203 reads

Sexy Spatula I P

Submitted on July 29, 2009 - 11:04 | 558 reads

Shadows in the Darkness

Submitted on October 25, 2011 - 21:27 | 102 reads

Shut out!

Submitted on June 1, 2011 - 12:06 | 135 reads

Smothered Love

Submitted on July 9, 2009 - 13:37 | 519 reads

Spring is sprung! I.P.

Submitted on March 23, 2009 - 14:16 | 518 reads

Springtime! I.P.

Submitted on March 24, 2009 - 02:18 | 538 reads

Suck and Swallow

Submitted on May 24, 2009 - 23:20 | 973 reads

Summer

Submitted on April 30, 2010 - 11:56 | 269 reads

Summer Kings

Submitted on April 1, 2010 - 14:02 | 361 reads

Summer's Mourn

Submitted on August 1, 2009 - 09:43 | 418 reads

Summer's Mourn

Submitted on January 7, 2009 - 20:25 | 589 reads

Sundown

Submitted on February 25, 2009 - 18:09 | 543 reads

Sunsets (Goodbye Kathleen)

Submitted on February 28, 2010 - 21:23 | 342 reads

Take Me Home (for Kathleen)

Submitted on February 8, 2010 - 17:59 | 484 reads

Teacher Man

Submitted on July 20, 2009 - 07:38 | 471 reads

Terms!

Submitted on January 13, 2010 - 20:30 | 342 reads

The Blind I.P.

Submitted on September 2, 2009 - 12:06 | 500 reads

The Blue Dress

Submitted on September 19, 2010 - 12:02 | 538 reads

The Brown Leather Atlas I.P.

Submitted on August 10, 2009 - 12:23 | 500 reads

The Brown Leather Frame (original version)

Submitted on July 27, 2009 - 12:13 | 442 reads

The Chair

Submitted on February 9, 2009 - 18:42 | 573 reads

The Cherry Blossom (I.P.)

Submitted on July 4, 2009 - 02:30 | 717 reads

The Clown

Submitted on January 16, 2011 - 10:14 | 159 reads

The Clown

Submitted on April 4, 2011 - 16:46 | 147 reads

The Cottage (Poem)

Submitted on January 8, 2009 - 01:09 | 1122 reads

The Cottage (Story - Part 1)

Submitted on January 8, 2009 - 01:17 | 1105 reads

The Dying Breed

Submitted on September 20, 2009 - 19:56 | 424 reads

The Final Oasis

Submitted on September 13, 2009 - 18:25 | 417 reads

The Fire

Submitted on March 23, 2010 - 13:24 | 389 reads

The Fissure

Submitted on January 18, 2011 - 17:21 | 156 reads

The Hammock

Submitted on July 7, 2009 - 10:25 | 434 reads

The Old House

Submitted on August 19, 2011 - 08:30 | 205 reads

The Prognosis Train

Submitted on January 13, 2009 - 00:13 | 566 reads

The Shifting Sand

Submitted on March 9, 2010 - 12:28 | 309 reads

The Sixties

Submitted on June 23, 2009 - 12:50 | 545 reads

The Tooth Fairy

Submitted on March 7, 2009 - 19:54 | 638 reads

The Young Poet

Submitted on March 27, 2011 - 11:00 | 177 reads

They bring me their ghosts

Submitted on April 1, 2011 - 10:31 | 132 reads

They Offer Tears

Submitted on August 22, 2009 - 21:09 | 464 reads

Time Moves On

Submitted on May 22, 2011 - 15:56 | 148 reads

Tough of the Track

Submitted on September 22, 2009 - 12:24 | 403 reads

Turf Man

Submitted on August 30, 2011 - 12:34 | 187 reads

Un-Prodigal Daughter

Submitted on February 4, 2009 - 00:02 | 594 reads

Unemployed

Submitted on January 11, 2009 - 11:30 | 553 reads

Unemployed (A year on ABC tales)

Submitted on December 17, 2009 - 13:59 | 312 reads

Until Your Wings Have Fully Grown (For Kathleen)

Submitted on February 11, 2010 - 00:41 | 371 reads

Virtually

Submitted on March 20, 2011 - 13:45 | 260 reads

Vitriolic Sticky Wicket

Submitted on July 21, 2009 - 13:01 | 512 reads

Waning

Submitted on January 5, 2011 - 19:50 | 167 reads

Well Suited

Submitted on March 11, 2010 - 13:09 | 404 reads

What Summer

Submitted on August 29, 2010 - 19:53 | 294 reads

When (For Haiti)

Submitted on January 25, 2010 - 13:13 | 332 reads

When Love Dies

Submitted on September 25, 2010 - 14:52 | 229 reads

Who?

Submitted on February 10, 2009 - 21:12 | 569 reads

Widowed!

Submitted on June 19, 2009 - 19:18 | 480 reads

Winter Beach

Submitted on January 9, 2009 - 01:06 | 586 reads

Winter Visitor

Submitted on January 20, 2010 - 12:15 | 358 reads

Wipe Out

Submitted on June 23, 2009 - 09:51 | 458 reads

Worn Down (Despair)

Submitted on July 1, 2011 - 09:26 | 192 reads

Young Summer Memories

Submitted on October 1, 2009 - 12:30 | 455 reads

Comments

threeleafshamrock | January 7, 2009 - 19:41

Never been published! Found a magazine that actually made sense and gave hope to a frustrated (possibly not very good writer). Discovered a link to this site and am enjoying some of the fantastic work herein. I hope I can contribute something.