Derrynane House

Only the red rust light, behind these calm closed eyes

Only the muffled conversation, and the sounds of soft rolling seas

Only the sweet scent of a flower, that I am unable to define

Other than it has a lemon blossom, and grows wild on the dunes

From Christopher Sanderson's Ireland Poems
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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”

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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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