Happiness is Poetry: Brian McGettrick
Tonight an Irish poet, Brian McGettrick, I was turned on to him by Hosho McCreesh, I really dig his style, he reminds me in some ways of Peter McWilliams, short powerful pieces that say a lo, in very few words. Have a read and I hope you enjoy his work and have a happy day my friends ~ Rev Kane
raucous ’till the end.
pierce my heart with glee
like laughter running down the street
unloosed
no dragging hindrance
flying beyond the wind
careful
be exact
with a precision born from need
and a want to please
forgetting night’s reproach
we’ll sneak past our mistakes
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water reflected love.
the possibility of betrayal
is just down the hall
stumbling across hard-held beliefs
wearing some dead man’s clothes
but I remember your painted toenails
swinging in front of the radiator
that whistled love songs all night long
the duration of great things seems short
and therein lies half their appeal
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all too real.
having removed yourself
to beneath the shadows you still cast
to watch me missing you,
your pity stretches out the day
obscuring its end.
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all fallen over.
in the middle of the page
there’s your love going by
arms out to someone else
sly
morose
like a violin strain
and that feeling of the cat
being poisoned
by the bird in its mouth
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