Archive for April, 2008
No Additives
As you read these wordsWho do you hear in your head?A Yank? An Aussie? A Lepreachaun?Or does the Queen herself recite?
As you read these words of artWhat accent is portrayed?Is English-English the dialect heard,Or an echo of a tongue, closer to my heart?
Do you recite this with your own mindOr do you try to unlock [...]
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Parasite
Snip. Snip. Snip.I cut off from myselfThe dependant fiendsThat kill me slowly
They, for so longHave eaten awayAt what they callMy life force
By this stageI’m left as nothingBut a shell of myFormer, bright self
I am like a motherBreastfeeding my unwantedBastard children
They do nothing for me,Give me nothing in returnFor my life-milkYet I die at each breath…
Abort. [...]
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The War
Long live the Republic,God save the Queen,Yet to neither island am I loyalFor both have disgraced me
Their languages I fluently speakTheir customs I seem to knowBut on neither soil, I have noticed,Am I allowed to grow
For every day is still a warFor possession of my mind;To be reclaimed is still importantYet my treatment is unkind
For [...]
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Its strange for me to write poetry in English, as I personally find the language to be that of the rational, logical and somewhat detached world from the world of flowing emotion that can be found in other languages, like Irish (Gaelic) or French. English, being a Germanic-Romance hybrid, is sometimes harsh in its sounds, [...]
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Tags: english, Irish, language, poem, poetry, translation
Previous Engagement
On a cool November night,Just off Stephen’s Green,You got down on one knee in front of meAnd asked a question I never expected.
A year later, the end had come,And by then, all that was left wasA loss of hope in our love, yetA regained self-respect, forWe both know what happenedBehind closed doors.
Half a year later, [...]
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