Michelle Boyle
Virginia , Ireland
Michelle Boyle’s work explores people and place from everyday life expressed in her distinctive spontaneous and fluid way. ‘
Message
At The First Sign
the sad canal
and then
life
a sizable trout
“Fish it out”
says someone
“Fish it out”
like plucking out
an eye
leaving the water
blind
THE MARBLE ARCH
(Public House, Inchicore)
Swans touching down
on liquid runway
red
to flickering orange
green
traffic flows
a vain bird, sunrinsed
in ripples of concentric peach
I cross the footbridge
catch the bleeps
wade between the built up banks
reach
the only telephone around
unspoilt
Fitzgerald’s Marble Arch
through perspex, looms
carpet eking from the lounge
There I’ll sit ( will sip)
and brood
give flight to agile thoughts
- that they may one day earn
crusty approval.
Liam O Meara
Diviner
Dublin
Dubh Linn
black pools of your eyes
dilate and take me in
a city man
trying to find his way home
Anna
Anna Livia
reach high against these walls
offering protection
guidence reassurance lifelong companionship
and more much more....
Poddle I could always sense
flowing through the darkness vigorously
now I have divined your course
touching my mind my body...
the essence, sustenance
kernal of my soul
bia cno grainne abhair chroi
Note
I have lived in the suburbs since childhood, but my first years were spent in the City on the quays overlooking the Liffey. Diviner recalls a walk with a friend through Dublin City at night sensing my connection with the place and also the realization that my companion was more than a friend. The Gaelic words are synonyms for eithne, the Irish word for Kernal.
Liam O Meara