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. |
Jennifer Matthews has recently published her poem 'Panda' in Mslexia magazine. Prior to this she won the 1999 Women's Studies Undergraduate Writing Award and as a result had poems published in the journal Voices at the University of Missouri.
She graduated from the MA program in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria in 2003 and currently teaches in English as a Foreign Language here in Cork.
Scavenger Hunt
Priceless is useless nowadays - its
Survival of the egoist. This
Is the age of the scavenger
Holidaying on the cheap in former
War zones, taking excursions
After natural disasters. I
Fill the tank with the bones of
Liquid history and fly there faster.
I crave blood diamonds to scratch
Worth into my precious days, their
Hard light refracting over
Stones of stolen temples;
Elgin thieves and I
Pay my fees to take a honeymoon
Photo with history.
I surf strangers' pages and ignore my neighbors
And rather than take a moment for some
Soft
Act of creation, I feed
On some old carcass broadcast
By a global tv station.
© Jennifer Matthews
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