Category Poems and Writing

Poetry also allows me to approach the painful in myself, to gently explore it, understand its underlying quality, to uncover the shapes of grief or anger hidden beneath a difficult event or feeling. It allows the discovery of the nature of what I am trying to approach - to understand that “it is like this”, “it is like that” is incredibly helpful - it allows for greater insight.

My luck is a cardboard box / And food that is scarce / I don’t belong / In a world that does not care / That cannot distinguish / My pavement body / On the footpath

The doubts are subsiding / The spirit within / The weird and the wonderful / Where do I begin?

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I see the light breaking through the crack inside this wall / And in this moment of cacao clarity, illusion begins to fall / For what I thought I never knew / Can be learned each day as I start with breath that is new

In her small frame, a child-like grace / But her mind, a beacon to light this place / Filled with memories of old Dublin's streets / Where laughter danced to timeless beats