Poem - Post Crosshairs

being a dictator
is like being a rock star
short sharp bursts of success
feted by world leader groupies
all chasing after the spotlight
then it turns to guns
you lie there post crosshairs
they exude the same satisfaction
whether you are living or dead
truth  reality  honour
irrelevant in the political weather forecast



By Drax

Poem - The Incessant Bell

the bell was ringing incessantly

what could it mean

a bomb – surely no, Gerry is here

but shit, the conspiracy theorists

a fire,

I smell no smoke

home time – couldn’t be already

tea time – that must be it

I might go down to the canteen, sorry,
the Members dining area

and get a cup of tea and a kit kat

I wonder when there will be a vote

about something

these boyos don’t do much here

ah well €8,234.28

not bad for a month
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Background: extract from a story yesterday relating to TD voting patterns...
Kerry South Tom Fleming, a new TD, only voted on six of the 20 occasions he was signed in.

But last night he said it took him a few days to understand that the bells that ring around Leinster House before votes were for calling TDs to the chamber..

By Drax Ireland

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A Poem - Dripping Goodbye

I left the house like aliens took me

what a mess, papers, notes,

half eaten poems

dirty dishes, wine bottles..

and an unmade bed

the shape of her there still

the peaks and troughs of passion 

clear to me in the disarray

echoes of her cries pasted on my wall

the warmth of her body hanging there
in the ice of my mind..

dripping goodbye

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Poem - The Retired Dragon

The retired dragon looked longingly at his toes
and the retracted webbing
never to fly again 

in the swirls and twirls of love’s chase
the red eye covered with the patch of alone
the spark of his flame now quickly extinguished

bound on this moribund ground

trudging towards his final mountain cave

and the bones 
of Her…

there…

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Image Courtesy of Mark Behm..
http://www.markbehm.com/blogger/

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By Drax Ireland