Viewing Point

The immensity of it all, caught in an instant, with our instant camera

We have become more Japanese than the Japanese, who take their pictures standing on the overhanging wall

Yet it is we who are quiet, whilst it is they who make boisterous conversation “ya, ya, ma”, “ya, ya, ma”

From Christopher Sanderson's Ireland Poems
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Motoring

The winding river winds

Winds away from the bridge

Where the winding water flows

Slow days

Have gone by so slowly

As we try to reach out

Reach out for our destination

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Detour

Waterlogged cotton blossom

Bogged down

Off the beaten track

So only a perception

Of your reflection

Is in another’s mid-day sun

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Art Gallery Café

It is a wonderful world, here, today, with the young boy halfway to sleeping 

Rocked, in his mothers arms; her smile also, for certain disarms me

Yet I could not look too close at the thalidomide victim

My prejudices, or fears, or weakness

They all remain too self-certain

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Karl and Christine Chilcott

The cotton in the bog, another photograph opportunity

What haste has forced me to abandon my abandon 

Instead we pressed onwards, to Cill Rialaig

Where the real artists offer to display their real craft 

None which moves me so much as the sculptor in nature

Whose pebble-chess-pieces, and the like

Were photographed by his daughter

Their Last Stop project caught all and more

Much more than I might have captured

From the cotton in the bog

From Christopher Sanderson's Ireland Poems
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