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Sinead Tierney a Co. Clare native, currently residing in New York City sent us this week's poem.
She succeeds in capturing an atmosphere that rings familiar and almost sidetracks a current and sensitive subject that is generating many controversial opinions, and yet the reader is left pondering as much at the end as at the beginning. It works!
And I'm sure you will enjoy reading it and I have absolutely no doubt that it is a subject that will trigger many conversations.
Christmas is Over
Another night of another round of shots,
Shooting them down,
Burning to the core.
Swearing after each time "never again".
Debate continues over gun laws
And another round of shots!
Oh! What is it this time
A school, a mall, a cinema?
This doom and gloom is clogging the room,
Let's fix it with a round of shots.
Jameson, Patron, Powers, Tanqueray,
Hell whatever makes them stay.
A potion to briefly unite or
An excuse to join the slug.
"Take away the guns that'll sort it all".
Doesn't anybody ask why you shoot the shots?
Just Hit me!
>© Sinead Tierney
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