The child who dwells inside me
has placed her dreams in you
and she is calling her beloved
from the faithful honeyed waters
running there below the surface
of her soul.
She trusts you’ll be a kind friend
who’ll play a truthful melody
and sing along
to gentle lilting love song
beating in her breast.
And like a raven mid-flight
in brilliant sun,
a whitethorn bush
in the shadowless dead of night
and a phoenix at rest
on a rose-ivory river bed
in the moments before waking
her heart is moving
through the geography of love.
Desmond Swords
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Saturday, December 17, 2005
EXPRESS YOURSELF
EXPRESS YOURSELF JUST LIKE THE ADS SAY
LIVE YOUR LIFE
IN A NEW MATERIAL WAY
NO FEAR
NO TEAR
SHED
FOR THOSE
LEFT IN THE WAKE
OF THE WAY WE LIVE OUR MODERN LIFE
TODAY
I SCREAM
YOU SCREAM
WE ALL SCREAM
FOR
I SCREAM TOO
ONE
TWO
ONE
TWO
THIS
IS
NOT
A
TEST
COALESCE
MORE
OR
LESS
COME TOGETHER NOW
TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE ONES
FOR THE THINGS YOU DO
ONE
DAY
WILL BE DONE
TO
YOU
IN YOUR SMALL CORNER
I
AND
I
IN MINE
PARALLELED
IN THOUGHT
NEVER DARE
CROSS THE LINE
WE
TOO FAT
TO THINK
TOO SKINNY
TO CARE
CANT CHANGE
THE WORLD
SO WE
JUST CHANGE
OUR
HAIR
COLORS
EXPRESS YOURSELF JUST LIKE THE ADS SAY.......
NOEL SWEENEY
I got this from Noel to put up. I would have him live recorded in perfect digital stereo, but unfortunatley the gremlins were out on Tuesday night in Dorans weekly warble and me, Noel and Rob McKenna never got it onto the hard drive of my Mp3. However I did get some others. This was the first time I had recorded via the line in option instead of the dictaphone like microiphone, and the quality of sound is CD like; so I have been up the last few days playing with the new software toys and cobbled together a 7 minute show, half of which is Damien Davis singing one of his songs, "The girl with the ten blonde hairs."
Damien was the original Paddy Casey and Damien Davis, coming out of the same scene, but he never sold a million because he is older than the other two and not as photogenic, but his songs are truly inspiring and he is a well respected songman.
I will have to wait a few days to upload the new audio as I have to wait till after Tuesday.
Next week I will have finally captured Noel and you will not be dissapointed. Any one who hears him says the same thing, namely that he is the main man live, but Noel being Noel and not one to blow his own trumpet, is completely off the mainstream radar and I hope that by bringing him and others like him, directly to the audience, then this will play a small part in democratizing poetry. Audio can cut out all the rubbish thhat the commercial poets and their patrons waffle as everyone can judge by their own ears and no longer have to put up with the fictions Emglish language poetry furthers in the name of truth.
Until then dear reader au revoir.
LIVE YOUR LIFE
IN A NEW MATERIAL WAY
NO FEAR
NO TEAR
SHED
FOR THOSE
LEFT IN THE WAKE
OF THE WAY WE LIVE OUR MODERN LIFE
TODAY
I SCREAM
YOU SCREAM
WE ALL SCREAM
FOR
I SCREAM TOO
ONE
TWO
ONE
TWO
THIS
IS
NOT
A
TEST
COALESCE
MORE
OR
LESS
COME TOGETHER NOW
TAKE CARE OF THE LITTLE ONES
FOR THE THINGS YOU DO
ONE
DAY
WILL BE DONE
TO
YOU
IN YOUR SMALL CORNER
I
AND
I
IN MINE
PARALLELED
IN THOUGHT
NEVER DARE
CROSS THE LINE
WE
TOO FAT
TO THINK
TOO SKINNY
TO CARE
CANT CHANGE
THE WORLD
SO WE
JUST CHANGE
OUR
HAIR
COLORS
EXPRESS YOURSELF JUST LIKE THE ADS SAY.......
NOEL SWEENEY
I got this from Noel to put up. I would have him live recorded in perfect digital stereo, but unfortunatley the gremlins were out on Tuesday night in Dorans weekly warble and me, Noel and Rob McKenna never got it onto the hard drive of my Mp3. However I did get some others. This was the first time I had recorded via the line in option instead of the dictaphone like microiphone, and the quality of sound is CD like; so I have been up the last few days playing with the new software toys and cobbled together a 7 minute show, half of which is Damien Davis singing one of his songs, "The girl with the ten blonde hairs."
Damien was the original Paddy Casey and Damien Davis, coming out of the same scene, but he never sold a million because he is older than the other two and not as photogenic, but his songs are truly inspiring and he is a well respected songman.
I will have to wait a few days to upload the new audio as I have to wait till after Tuesday.
Next week I will have finally captured Noel and you will not be dissapointed. Any one who hears him says the same thing, namely that he is the main man live, but Noel being Noel and not one to blow his own trumpet, is completely off the mainstream radar and I hope that by bringing him and others like him, directly to the audience, then this will play a small part in democratizing poetry. Audio can cut out all the rubbish thhat the commercial poets and their patrons waffle as everyone can judge by their own ears and no longer have to put up with the fictions Emglish language poetry furthers in the name of truth.
Until then dear reader au revoir.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Listen to Write and Recite poets 6 Dec 2005 - Dorans Pub
Hello Houston, we have lift off. Click and listen to Write and Recite from
Write and Recite poets recorded on Tuesday 6 Dec 2005
Patricia Farrel - Raven - DJ God aka Mike from Meath - Mr Incredible & Ovid Yeats
Yes, it's 12.37 pm Saturday 10 December and I arose under the mistaken impression that it was 2 hours later, at 11.30, thinking it was 1.30. Intolerably early for rising I know, but the day demands it due to the special nature of the occassion. It is my sisters 40th and I have to go and help put out the fairy cake and salmon paste butties at the Yacht pub in Clontarf.
But the good news is that the Write and Recite poetry grouping is out there live for the first time. These are the poets whose voices can silence the chatterring drones of poesie pontificating from their toff and wannabee posh towers of critical omnisience, clinging to the fallacy that the greek and romans will give them all they need as poets.
These poets at write and recite are by far the most cohesive, vibrant and exciting grouping in Ireland today, and will weave their words anywhere, at the proverbial drop of a hat, very much following the Amiri Baraka ideal. He says if you think your stuff is good then go tell the men digging the holes in the road. These poets will do that and they develop by challenging themselves in the real world, not in the artificial envoronments that the usual heavyweight wafflers do, torquing up the lingo and trying to make limp encounters at university conferences sound like weekend bare knuckle free for alls in Ballymum chippies.
The reason we have to read the bores in traditional mass print media is because they are the educated ones who have the werwithall to get their words out. The Write and Recite grouping of poets is headed by Gerry McNamara who has run Write and Recite for the past 2 years and is a breath of fresh air in literary circles, as he has none of the usual pretensions which some open mic and local poetry organisers have. No inverted snobbery or designs on a knighthood, just down to earth Irish sense of fair play and equality for all.
Next week we will hear one of the best buskers singing in Dublin, Damien Davis, who is the origianl Damien Dempsey and Paddy Casey, as he was their tutor during the International days when Paddy and Dempsey were but raw. The reason Damien missed out on the recording contracts, even though he is just as talented, if not more so; is simple. He doesn't have the face for teenage bedrooms. So he will open next weeks show and blow you away with his work.
Clcik and Listen. I must be off to the Yacht pub.
Write and Recite poets recorded on Tuesday 6 Dec 2005
The night is Write and Recite and occurs in Dorans Pub, Temple Bar Square, Temple Bar, Dublin every Tuesday after 8.30pm. This in the city centre on the south side of the river Liffey. You can not miss it.
Patricia Farrel - Raven - DJ God aka Mike from Meath - Mr Incredible & Ovid Yeats
Yes, it's 12.37 pm Saturday 10 December and I arose under the mistaken impression that it was 2 hours later, at 11.30, thinking it was 1.30. Intolerably early for rising I know, but the day demands it due to the special nature of the occassion. It is my sisters 40th and I have to go and help put out the fairy cake and salmon paste butties at the Yacht pub in Clontarf.
But the good news is that the Write and Recite poetry grouping is out there live for the first time. These are the poets whose voices can silence the chatterring drones of poesie pontificating from their toff and wannabee posh towers of critical omnisience, clinging to the fallacy that the greek and romans will give them all they need as poets.
These poets at write and recite are by far the most cohesive, vibrant and exciting grouping in Ireland today, and will weave their words anywhere, at the proverbial drop of a hat, very much following the Amiri Baraka ideal. He says if you think your stuff is good then go tell the men digging the holes in the road. These poets will do that and they develop by challenging themselves in the real world, not in the artificial envoronments that the usual heavyweight wafflers do, torquing up the lingo and trying to make limp encounters at university conferences sound like weekend bare knuckle free for alls in Ballymum chippies.
The reason we have to read the bores in traditional mass print media is because they are the educated ones who have the werwithall to get their words out. The Write and Recite grouping of poets is headed by Gerry McNamara who has run Write and Recite for the past 2 years and is a breath of fresh air in literary circles, as he has none of the usual pretensions which some open mic and local poetry organisers have. No inverted snobbery or designs on a knighthood, just down to earth Irish sense of fair play and equality for all.
Next week we will hear one of the best buskers singing in Dublin, Damien Davis, who is the origianl Damien Dempsey and Paddy Casey, as he was their tutor during the International days when Paddy and Dempsey were but raw. The reason Damien missed out on the recording contracts, even though he is just as talented, if not more so; is simple. He doesn't have the face for teenage bedrooms. So he will open next weeks show and blow you away with his work.
Clcik and Listen. I must be off to the Yacht pub.
The night is Write and Recite and occurs in Dorans Pub, Temple Bar Square, Temple Bar, Dublin every Tuesday after 8.30pm. This in the city centre on the south side of the river Liffey. You can not miss it.
Saturday, December 03, 2005
AUDIO UP 'N RUNNING
Yo Lah, Scalljah cumin' at Ya quicker than an AK47 workin' overtime for George 'n Dicks "In the Desert Possee".
We are now up and running on the audio. I have just added a very interesting track by Delta O'Hara, who is a very gifted poet from the West of Ireland. Click the link and start listening. This was recorded at Chaplins Pub - The Poetry Cell Group, which meets every Tuesday in Chaplins pub opposite Trinity College and Pearse Street Garada station after 8.30pm.
Live Poetry From Dublin's Finest
Write and Recite has moved to Dorans Pub Temple Bar Tuesdays after 8.30pm and the current genius is Mr Incredible, aka Ciaron Philpots from Artane, who is Irelands best gangsta rapper, who creates his magic in his home based bedroom studio with QBase music software and is going great guns. He can genuinely extemporise in the gangsta genre with witty and sharp lyrics. Write adn Recite truly embraces all genres and ages, so come on down and be apart of it.
We will be bringing you the Write and Recite vibe next week, with live recordings from it, so stay tuned.
We are now up and running on the audio. I have just added a very interesting track by Delta O'Hara, who is a very gifted poet from the West of Ireland. Click the link and start listening. This was recorded at Chaplins Pub - The Poetry Cell Group, which meets every Tuesday in Chaplins pub opposite Trinity College and Pearse Street Garada station after 8.30pm.
Write and Recite has moved to Dorans Pub Temple Bar Tuesdays after 8.30pm and the current genius is Mr Incredible, aka Ciaron Philpots from Artane, who is Irelands best gangsta rapper, who creates his magic in his home based bedroom studio with QBase music software and is going great guns. He can genuinely extemporise in the gangsta genre with witty and sharp lyrics. Write adn Recite truly embraces all genres and ages, so come on down and be apart of it.
We will be bringing you the Write and Recite vibe next week, with live recordings from it, so stay tuned.
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