I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Poems
The Dilemma: John Hewitt
As term-time ends at the Stormont British Administration Centre and recess is called for the sectarian head-count known as local elections, Martin McGuinness, ex-IRA leader and now Deputy First Minister…
The Loss of the Titanic
The RMS Titanic was a British registered four funnelled ocean liner built for the transatlantic passenger and mail service between Southampton and New York.
Constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, the Titanic was on her maiden voyage, the largest vessel afloat.
Long Woman’s Grave: end
‘Thus far old Ned the story told
He turned towards the wall
Ashamed to let us see the tears
That from his eyes did fall ..
Mimivirus: after Yeats
Mimivirus merchants
Denizens of a shadow world
No more alive than dead
But ever-present: indestructible;
Poet Seamus Mac Cuarta
With the Irish social system broken by military defeats and Plantations from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and the princely families no longer available as patrons of the poets, the cultivation of Irish learning passed from the hereditary families into the hands of the common people.
Music-makers
For some unknown reason, certain phrases within dramas and/or poems become enshrined in the language. The first lines of this for example, and the phrase ‘movers and shakers’.
In any case when you are next in the Town Hall, you might choose to draw attention to the inscription around the balcony’s frontage (the first couplet of this poem) and flaunt your knowledge!
The Presence of God …
Despite our collective anguish at the current Church crisis, we remember our individual spiritual lives: my contribution is this moving poem by Plunkett :
I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes …