tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40665762101973344322024-03-14T05:47:19.239+00:00poems that rhymeIf you like what I write please share with others.
I would also very much value your comments.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066576210197334432.post-20058459515493909652017-07-23T16:27:00.001+01:002017-07-23T20:02:07.670+01:00The Cow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the hole it puts in the ozone layer</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066576210197334432.post-43703326312709230812011-06-27T17:05:00.003+01:002012-01-17T14:34:34.607+00:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thank you for calling.</b></span></div><div style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Please feel free to browse my poetry.</b></span></div><div style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Please comment, your views are very helpful. </b></span></div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066576210197334432.post-6597365889523203872011-05-23T11:41:00.000+01:002017-07-21T21:00:14.003+01:00Eireann go Brea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well now we're truly broke,the party's done.</div>
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And those who had great riches now have none. </div>
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And those who dreamed the dream can only weep,</div>
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And slosh around in debt a fathom deep.<br />
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Our discourse laden down with gloom and strife.</div>
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The doom so thick you'd cut it with a knife. </div>
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Zombie banks are feeding on our flesh,</div>
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Insatiable, each day they start a fresh.<br />
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The great and good have many things to hide</div>
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The old,the poor,the sick are cast aside.</div>
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Corrupted by their greed our leaders lie,</div>
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Transfixed we watch our childern's futures die.<br />
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We'll whinge ourselves to death but never act,</div>
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As former friends devise some new attack.</div>
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The Irish lemmings racing to the cliff,</div>
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The cute hoors holding back to bag a spiff.<br />
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And experts chart another good way out.</div>
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Some say head for north,some say south.</div>
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Despondency is giving way to dread,</div>
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Our self regard is hanging from a thread.<br />
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If talk could cure our ills we'd never ail.</div>
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The only thing we've learned is how to fail.</div>
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It's time to roar,<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066576210197334432.post-39947877988152629902011-05-15T16:31:00.003+01:002011-05-23T00:33:44.648+01:00Walking in Daisy Fields<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Walking in Daisy Fields.</span></u></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066576210197334432.post-22627310437625594562011-05-08T22:12:00.001+01:002017-07-21T21:13:01.049+01:00Racism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">It’s the colour of your skin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">It’s the fear I hold inside</span></div>
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The world looked on in disbelief<br />
And watched two towers fall.<br />
Then watched New Yorkers rise up<br />
Responding to the call.<br />
The task that they were facing<br />
Would put them to the test.<br />
But they soldiered on regardless,<br />
America's best.<br />
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They never flinched despite their grief <br />
For friends and family killed.<br />
The dangers faced and then erased<br />
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The nation watched in wonder</div>
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Their pride was rising fast </div>
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The tragedy of lives destroyed</div>
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In such an evil way</div>
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Creates a wound thats hard to heal</div>
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In any normal way.</div>
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But let us look for comfort</div>
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And relief from our distress,</div>
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By learning what true strength is ,from,</div>
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America's best<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066576210197334432.post-22139709184009838942011-04-24T21:31:00.003+01:002011-06-19T19:07:32.404+01:00Lord.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Are you up there Lord.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Are you still up there</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Seated at the right hand.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Are you up there Lord</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Can you see me Lord.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Can you see me.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Can you.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">“The speeding car was red”</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A local pastor said.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A pealing bell, A Last farewell.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Red car- Stone wall-Four dead.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">“The speeding car was red”</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Everybody said.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">But in a jot we all forgot</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Red car-Stone wall-Four dead</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066576210197334432.post-91693856864660041842011-04-13T00:24:00.003+01:002017-07-21T21:08:44.035+01:00Hurt that won't heal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Will wounds this old always remain.?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now in the dark you sit alone</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Your heart takes on the weight of stone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">How many now through all the years?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">You wish again this pain was gone.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Soldier will you tell me,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Now your heading off to war.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Now your coming home from war.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Did you know when you were killed today</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Now they say a last goodbye.</span></b></div>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">I wade into the water to the hip.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And stall and strain against the river’s push. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And on the bed those round deceptive rocks,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">At first refuse and then allow me grip.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Then when a steady stance I can attain,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And feathered lure is ready for the cast,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">A feeling that I’v often had before,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tells me my efforts may all be in vain.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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