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This Weeks Poetry to Inspire: Emigration Song

This Weeks Poetry to Inspire: Emigration Song

I recently took a create date in County Wexford, the corner of Ireland where I was born and raised, and the place that I find more creatively inspiring than anywhere else in the world. It gave me this poem about emigration. It was one of those poems that told me...
Today’s Inspirational Poetry: First Time

Today’s Inspirational Poetry: First Time

Pic by Hu Chen @huchenme Sunday is poetry day on my blog. This week's inspirational poetry: First Time FIRST TIME One day old. As we, with your mother, stare and ache at the soft, open throb of your bald and vulnerable skull translucent at your gossamer brows, your...
Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Writer At Work

Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Writer At Work

Sunday is poetry day on the blog, and also on my Patreon Page. So welcome to this week's inspirational poetry: Writer At Work, one specially for the writers among you. I wrote this poem some years ago but revised it slightly for Keepers, my latest collection. I hope...
Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Spinning Still

Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Spinning Still

It's Valentine's week, so how about a love poem? I wrote a version of this poem ten years ago, so it's an anniversary poem too, revived and revised as the days grow ever more golden. I run a Patreon page for my poetry. My most loyal readers–my patrons–...