Darkness encroaching: spattered chill of rain. Once upon a summer, we might ridicule its demands. #15wordspoet

Walk through the rain, relentless and dogged; ignore the studious silence of flood barriers upraised. #15wordspoet

Heart and mind again spark their connection. #7wordspoet

Face each day head-on. Brace yourself for the torpedo of the one thing you'll forget. #15wordspoet

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Purpose? Word swirls, painted lesions to paper. #7wordspoet

Still mind holds fast to deepened breath; can its dark tide efface our worlds entirely? #15wordspoet

elsewhere a dark floor lava carpet flowing #7wordspoet

I sat in this cafe most days when I was young, its mirrored wall before me. Looking up now and then, I'd meet my anxious eyes; these days they're harnessed with glasses to see where I went. #WorldPoetryDay

Honoured that one of my poems features in 'Forgotten Fragments of Time', the latest anthology from Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing. barnesandnoble.com/w/forgotten-fr…

By Seamus Heaney.

Honoured that @Atrium_Poetry has featured one of my poems today.

Natasha O’Brien is a truly extraordinary person - her integrity, clarity, courage, and her humanity is all so inspiring. She has been horribly failed by our justice system. This cannot stand.

What a truly lovely man he was.

Bright packet, which seed must now fall? #7WordsPoet

Declan Flynn was a 31-year-old working at Dublin Airport for Aer Rianta. Were he living in 21st Century Dublin you might see him as just another good looking young gay lad smiling in a selfie on Facebook or maybe bopping on the dancefloor of The George with his mates of a

Let stone here mirror an embrace of petals. #7WordsPoet

Tonight’s RTÉ #Leathered documentary was extremely difficult watching and makes an unanswerable case for a broad inquiry into child abuse in Irish schools. Calls to widen inquiry into sexual abuse in schools rte.ie/news/2024/1030…