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Tuesday August 19, 2009

Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page

If you have a poem you'd like to see published in The Irish Examiner then send it to:

The Poetry Corner
The Irish Examiner USA
1040 Jackson Avenue, Third Floor
Long Island City
NY 11101

or, preferably, you can email it direct to
ronniemcginn@eircom.net.

If possible keep your poem to 20 lines. You may choose any subject you like, in any form you like as long as it's original. We look forward to hearing from you.

This poem happend in relation to a new law being passed in Ireland a few weeks ago, of a "Fine" against blasphemy. The image in the poem relates to a symbolistic painting by Hugo Simberg, "The wounded Angel" (1903). Written by Rosalin Blue, of Carrigaline, Co Cork. Rosalin was born in Germany and has lived in the Cork area with her German-Irish family since 2005. In 2000 she did eight months work-experience with the Munster Literature Centre in Cork. During this time she also read her poetry in Tigh Fili in Cork City and Connolly's of Leap and was a regular in the 'Slam' open mike events in the Spailpin Fanach. Rosalin Blue has a master's degree in applied cultural studies and wrote her thesis comparing her own poetry with expressionist poetry (1915-20). Blue has published some of her poetry in anthologies and magazines in Germany and Ireland.

Blasphemy

The angel
scampers up
from all four
dusts herself down
and checks her wing
broken.

Her white feathers
- stained
blood-red
with a black
smooch of cac.

Someone down there
had spoken a curse
- a blasphemy
of the heavens -
and got the
death sentence for it.

So she fell
down down
saturated from the tears
of loving relations
about that blasphemy
of a law

Picking herself up
she watches out
for help
but no-one there
to carry her
out of the mud.

Raising her eyes
the angel feels
all the orgasmic
heavenly powers
seeping away ...
seeping away ...

© Rosalin Blue

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