To Walk the Camino
I, a walker, have long planned To walk the Camino way But life such plans have thwarted So I write here today Where life takes time for cash to live When time to walk I have the cash is gone The rat...
View ArticleMerlin Woods – Spring Morning
The castle watches over landscape changed By mans creation, not the acts of war like before As in former times, this land knows peace Buy yet may know destruction once more… Trees planted in vision to...
View ArticleSummits Reached Before Depths
I climbed Cairn Hills summit step by step On a day when all was well The depths to which I was about to sink Fate had in store I could not tell The sun shone bright: a summers day How could I foresee...
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Two Magpies – Lough Atalia
Before me from the railtrack a magpie few Alone over the lake to trees Another for sorrow, of the piseog I thought: Superstition the mind does sieze! Then, walking on, to myself I smiled As another...
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Honest Hands Build True
Old Cottage in Oranmore – built with peasent hands, with no engineers, its was build true: and stands where many houses designed and built by engineers has fallen… Honest hands build walls true: Work...
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Fairy Fort at Lough Gowna
The Fairy Fort in Derrycassin Wood in Longford Did they look as I walked Where tradition states one never should, Inside the round ditches of the fort, Perched above Loch Gowna in Derrycassin Wood? If...
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Looking Out at the Skelligs
Skelligs seen through the morning mist… From clifftop in morning mist A view I would have missed If weather was finer, or I had slept This murky view from my eyes would be kept Hidden in the swirling...
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Arvagh
Provinces three by waters banks By war and history defined Men with quill drawing maps Each side to each outlined. Breiffne split between O Reilly and O Rourke Owned not by either but by the Crown Who...
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Plotting a Duel in Merlin Woods
Merlin Woods in a wood near where I live. A hospital is there now, and the wood is a public park. However, in days gone by, it is where duels were fought and scores settled. While walking there one day...
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The Muses Café
The Muses Cafe in Easons in Dublins O Connell Street Easons on Dublins O’ Connell Street has a Cafe called Muses… appropiate for a bookshop! While there, looking at pictures of now famous Irish writers...
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Kenavo
One New Years Eve, a strange noise was heard in the small Kerry village of Portmagee… a strange procession of sailors from a ship from Nantes proceeded up the village, starting a tradition that...
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The Fourth Funnel
Titanic, with only three funnels Proud men of Belfast built her Rivets driven blow by blow Built with inner savage pride Workers today seldom know… And from the sky, swinging crane The fourth funnel...
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Never Say the Woman Is Not a Lady
Lord Townsend Viceroy of Ireland who knighted Thomas Cuffe of Kilbeggan as a drunken antic You could break down in a worse place Even if you were not like His Grace There is in it no disgrace An axel...
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Heading to the Horizon
Dawn on the River Corrib Written on hearing a talk about doing the Camino, when heading out the walker told us his favourite part was looking at the horizon and telling himself he would see beyond it...
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Renmore Point
Pass by, By Boat, By foot… You and I. Renmore Point I wrote this for the LOVE ON THE ROCKS – DUBLIN facebook group, while passing the cruise ship in the picture, taking a photo of people unknowing of...
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Sitting Shoreside by Nabelwy Lake
Lough Nabelwy looking towards the Leitrim bank from the Longford Bank Looking back through photos, a shot of Lough Nabelwy reminded me of one of my favourite walks in North Longford, and of other...
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