BUT YOU WERE LOVED
When “I love you” becomes “I loved you”, Warm feelings freeze into dismay. How can the one you want not want you, While love in your heart pounds away?
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Forever Alone Chapter Six- Confused and Alone
Rakan sat against a tree for what seemed like ages, feeling worse than ever before.
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Back the Strand
Seamus Heaney actually wrote to me to say he liked this one. "I like the movement of your poem. Nice and taut. And I like that “cloud chased Coomanaspig”"
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Crayfish
First appeared in Poetry Ireland Review. It also featured on the UK Arts Council website for over a year linked to from the main page!
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Semaphore
wandering down drills through redshank and nettle cabbage-whites bobbing, stray amongst the stalks, sticking the spade in and heaving the hoard-clutch, excavated
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Hawaii
El Nino’s monopoly on imagination had them name it: Big Wednesday. Cars picked up and parked again. No more beach furniture. A midweek mountain range. Birds snatched from the sky.
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