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. |
All lyric poetry can be described as poetry of personal feeling and as long as poets are individuals, all different from one another, and as long as they feel impelled to express their feelings in durable form, there will be lyric poetry.
There is no form of art or expression which gives wider range to our thoughts and feelings than lyric poetry, but even with the infinite varieties of form available, it can prove immensely difficult to express ones inner emotions when the object of ones feelings are to close to contemplate. One can only try!
Julia
Beside the fading fire,
I watch your vacant chair,
A weight of emptiness,
Is hanging everywhere,
A quick glance to the kitchen,
I half expect to see,
You come smiling out,
With fresh made scones and tea.
But it's only in my mind,
No one's at the door,
Still hard to believe,
You're not here, anymore,
And yet within your home
Your presence still abounds,
Almost like you were here,
Making your house rounds.
The cold fear that I felt,
At your hospital bed,
The quite way you smiled,
The soft words that you said.
The truth is hard to take,
As sad tears fill my eyes,
But deep down in my heart
I know you'll never die.
Still no words can express,
The pain your family feels,
The loss is far too great
For their grief to reveal.
Yet, all the love you gave,
Was much more than enough,
To help us carry on,
When the going got tough
In our wayward world
You stood out strong and tall,
The good life that you lived
Was God's gift to us all..
A weight of emptiness,
Is hanging everywhere
Beside the fading fire,
I watch your vacant chair.
© Ronnie McGinn
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