Flanagan

Taking Up Flanagan
12-18-18

Just like the lead role of Ashuath in that which has been worked
In descendants of Asher in First Chronicles for our year of the French in Flanagan
And a man of Ireland prodigious grating this historic episode
In a good way animating all characters magnificent vivid and believable
In our country may I go up against English oppressors thrilled by valor exuberant and ferocious
We sweep the warehouse floors
"Astounding job", so says the boss as gentleman and apprentice
New and panoramic.....






Halfway To Kilcummin Strand
12-18-18

In Treacy of Fermanagh and a Chinese buffet
For a Christmas dinner
O, how I hope in Febian brotherhood into Drumshanbo
Over to Dundalk south the Drogheda further south to Dublin
Looking for Lough mask feeling cold and small down our river Moy
Ever since I was a boy
Climbing the Ox Mountains to seek forever flowing fountains
In alignment with Athlone loving our Longford for ornaments upon poems already
Shaped and formed at Qulgley's tavern
Handy-legged as to enter my cavern.....






You Would
12-18-18

Sullen ray hammers flat to the right
And I go home to get ready for inspection
Room enough for two more within the colored glass
Round as the full moon
It is where I preside clumsily built
Like wine spilt in my drinking days of enlightened inebriety
Two of whiskey on a hard flat surface
Yet I had better things to do
Don't own an umbrella
Don't have a plunger and my flashlight is out of sight
In O'Carroll the widowed.....