Where Man Is No Master
Where man has not touched, is in its own way today a corner of Eden…
View ArticleQueen Bee and the Drones
She flies higher, the queen bee, on the dance of death, of lust and love Till she burns out the drones who chase her, one by one, He who keeps with the chase enjoys the dance, but it kills him in the...
View ArticleFor The Corncrakes and Mankinds Sakes
If we put the same resources to saving the hungry and the homeless as we do into one little bird, this would be a way better country and world…
View ArticleTwo Dogs Having An Argument
By a pole scratching fiercely At another it starts to bark To be met with more doggy abuse Not heard since the days of the Ark.. And as by I am passing, Both together bark at me I pass by … Continue...
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No Money in Saving Lives
Drill for Water or for Oil? The world in places a desert Where water does not flow, Water flows down so deep Where no mere well drilling rig can go. Yet out at sea and over land, For which few men do...
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A Cat and I
Next door to our house in Banagher was McIntyre (then it was Deanes), and one of their cats was up a tree when I walked under it. I was around fifteen or sixteen at the time, and wrote this poem...
View ArticleBee Conversations
By some believed, when one had died, the bees had to be told Or umbridge taken, they would leave, not liking being ignored Id never heard that tale before, before an exhibition I went to see For all I...
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Morning Caw of the Jackdaw
Known for their cleverness, this one is “hitching a ride” on a car wiper! The jackdaws call in the morning Before the sun streaks the sky From tree, or other perch, loud it echos We listening, wonder...
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When Man Plays God
China had a campaign using the best science of the time to kill vermin, most notably the sparrow, and a plague of locusts killed the crop they tried to protect, showing our lack of understanding of...
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Walking Among a Host of Faded Daffodils at Lough Atalia
And all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dark yellow wilted daffodils… With apologies to #wordsworth #loughatalia seen from the #renmore bank looking up to #wellpark in #galway #nofilterneeded...
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