Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page
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Having the right feelings at the right times about the right things, towards the right people, for the right reasons and in the right way, is certainly the right condition to be in. Righteousness is a virtue but sometimes a little lubrication gets in the way.
Joseph Thomas McCausland, yet another Irishman with a passion for writing, tells us this poem came "spilling" out after a rather difficult day at the rat race in NYC.
A Longing for a Simpler Time
Sitting here, recliner, motionless
slaughtered from another day,
draining my tumbler of Jameson
the puppet strings of the world I sever
no telephones to speak of
television, a distant possibility...
staring down candlelight, enraptured, lost
envisioning employment at a blacksmith shop
handlebar moustaches and horseback
maidens in fancy dress
granting the spirit more with less
reading passages of the greats
extinguishing lamps with exhalation
fishing lakeside with tree limbs and string
making a catch worthy of the table
take me Lord from this time
there must have been some mistake.
© Joseph Thomas McCausland
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