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Tuesday July 13, 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.

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland and ask the people of West Cork where Millstreet is, they will tell you it's in North Cork. The people in North Cork will tell you it's in West Cork. Some humorists will tell you it's in East Kerry. The truth of course, Millstreet is a small country town in North-West Cork close to the Kerry border. It's origin dates back to antiquity. If you ever go there visit the graveyard!

Our poem this week is from Michael J. Roche Jnr. of Rensselaer, in upstate New York. Michael can trace his roots back to West Cork, where he likes to visit from time to time.

Michael has written quite a number of poems and is currently compiling a book.

The Millstreet Graveyard

All stones marked to speak
in time will not.
I have seen the work of process,
the normal course will run.
The work will be done on the stone
as it is done on the flesh.
These now nearly speechless stones,
worn almost bare of mark,
leaning, bent askew,
whispering of love and care,
or, at least,
the semblance of such feelings,
these will fail, break and fall,
and not by human hand.
All will fall.
Those placed in vanity,
those placed in grief,
none survive.
All stones marked to speak
in time will not.

© Michael Roche, Jr.

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