![July 12](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Bowler hats worn in some dark homage
to Sir Winston Churchill and the sixteen hundreds
to celebrate the liberation of struggling settlers
and the..
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![The Mauve Hills](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Six years old he stands the same height
as the cello and still idealises his father
their lead singer, who drunkenly reels
between the instrument..
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![Northern Liturgies](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Most of you have seen the vast majority of this before. I am just trying to bring some focus to my work.
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![Preface](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Jean Paul Sartre famously wrote: “I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentrati..
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![Falls Road](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Bereft of two brothers and one fiancé,
she passed their photos to me.
In a rioja wine soliloquy,
their stories were transformed
to Northern..
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![Colm](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Go on home British soldiers, go on home
she sang spinning: insatiable, manic
with out-of-her-mind laughter.
Her mind flashed back to Colm, buri..
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![Engagements](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Dublin: a daughter’s French polished
nails tap H. M. Samuels window,
staccato,she shows a still young mother,
that ringshe desires. A for..
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![A Republican Addresses His Commander](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
I wrote this poem more than a decade ago, listening to different stories when I was working as a mediator. I have lived a sheltered existence and neve..
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![Maturing Fields](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
He is only twenty-two but six times
the sycamore leaves have fallen
over these maturing fields,
since whiskey-breathed, fresh from football;
His..
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![Two Generations in the Long War](https://www.writerscafe.org/images/no_image_s.jpg) |
Ten years ago,his grip was secure
as the concrete earthhe made a carpet
every hour ofhis waking life;
Youwere proud to reachhis knee then.
&ls..
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