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Tuesday May 10, 2011

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.

Hard to believe six years have passed since the untimely death of Michael John Donovan of Cobh. Michael was a good supporter and gave great encouragement to this column. He was a friend I never met but I will always treasure his memory. His poems live on.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge the author of The Ancient Mariner once said that "Good prose are words in their best order but good poetry is the best of words in the best order".

Michael brought that quote to mind. His excellent poem is riveting in its intensity and yet gentle and loving in its picturesque portrayal.

Phrases like "Window ledge of a moving world" are certainly words in their best order. Thank you Michael!

MY NEWTOWN AUNTIE
(FOR CARA)

The years have tumbled by.
Cara you were the youngest.
You were my mother's baby sister.
You have survived so many.
Still you smile like a young girl
Whose fingertips are perfectly,
Balanced with delight upon the
Window ledge of a moving world.
Every day is a monument of miracle.
A coy glance at photographs, other things.
My Newtown Auntie Cara.
My mother's baby sister, within whose
Cheeky smile I can dance and dive and
Always find Rachel.

Two young girls whose footsteps still
Skip upon stilettoed heels, arms linked,
Skirts swishing through Cobh's cobbled
Squares and streets.

© Michael John Donovan, Cobh

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