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Tuesday March 2, 2010

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.

Miriam Casey is a prominent member of the Ballinlough Writers Group in Cork. Her writing is always a revelation as she has the courage to look at things from her own point of view and describe her subjects in a manner best suited to her.

Sometimes we get the impression that a poem is something written on paper. This is not altogether the truth. The printing on paper is really a poem second hand.

The real poem is an event of the mind. Miriam Casey's poem is an exciting illustration of the point in question.

Purity

The white laboratory rat
Lived behind white walls
Underneath a white ceiling,
Touched and fed and watered
By white coats
Who tested her intelligence
By conditioning.

One morning miss Skinner
The chief white coat
Found her with her entails
Hanging out ...
She was dispatched
In a black polythene binliner
To the caretaker's fire
Before the kids found out
And tales of
Purity's Cage Rage
Flew from mouth to mouth.

From the caretaker's fire
Purity's ashes fell
Amongst the children's plots
To join the roots and shoots
Of the growing,
But her spirit
Soared phoenix like
Into the waiting
Shriven Crow

© Miriam Casey

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