Síodhna

Anthropocene I don't track the units our house uses admit to hot steamy musings— the indulgent art of daytime baths the damage from nesting upon hearths— smoken open fires I am the reckless owner of a second car.

#ecopoem #BlueSkyPoets #poetry

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Kites there’s a dream caught in the kite stuck high in the tree— billowing freedom the playful steps of squirrels chasing each other— blindly round and around, clinging to eighty rings of life time passes, ...

Kites

Iris: A Poem in Alliterative Free Verse by Siodhna McGowan summer of intricate pattern, / waited patiently— / for the letting alone of things ...

Here's @siodhna.bsky.social's "Iris"
alliteration.net/poetry/iris/ #emoetry #tender #poetry

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unbreakable the undying leaf speaks, full to Moon what say you of this darkened spoon?

Unbreakable

edge look how the trees assemble themselves in theatres of light how murmurations twist and rise— orchestral choral sounds ascend in uncontainable thrust mosaics— from the darkened dust ask us to the wordl...

edge
(inspired by the time we're living through)

theseainme.substack.com/p/edge

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no kings no kings.

theseainme.substack.com/p/no-kings?r...

I might be a bit prone toward abstraction, I really intend for the feeling I feel to run through you too.

Let me know what you think.

theseainme.substack.com/p/the-return...

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in communion (a river runs through it)

'in communion'

walking the turns and folds of your beautiful body
my feet trace shapes— earthen and winding
the off-trails of oaken majesty

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Bealtaine (an abandoned Haiku)

Bealtaine

the universe is exhaling us
from her deep intakes of breath

we find ways back to each other like this
in Maytime Belenos bliss—

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We Carried May by Róisín Leggett Bohan

@leggettbohan.bsky.social is from Cork. She is co-founder of HOWL New Irish Writing. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Magma, Aesthetica and The Pomegranate London, among others.

Find #PoetryDayIRL Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social DARTs!

Really enjoyed Poetry Ireland's event with readings in Temple Bar this evening to mark it.

Art is born (for Poetry Day Ireland today)

Art is born
to souls seeded with wonder

in words. it sounds. it sings

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Kintsugi let's go back, shall we?

A recent bit of #alliterative #free-verse #poetry by @siodhna.bsky.social:

theseainme.substack.com/p/kintsugi

Kintsugi let's go back, shall we?

'Kintsugi'

(for the times we're living through, full poem, tunes and audio read on link)

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transience in this version of myself I'm not living on the outhales of anyone's affection.

'in this version of myself I'm not living on the outhales of anyone's affection.

I’m walking along a beach of foaming contrails, curving the edge of hypnotic hush.....'

(full piece on Substack link below)

#prosepoetry
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síolta (Síolta is the Irish word for 'Seeds' pronounced 'Sheelta')

Síolta

(Pronounced 'Sheelta' the Irish word for seeds)

In these noisy times....

'In fire, in wind, it might ignite
We oar the distance between'

Read in full and listen to audio on link below

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Spring Equinox the chevron of birds, like fighter pilots fly this way, but I walk that.

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'On leaving the park'

New poem out! You can read here on Substack.

theseainme.substack.com/p/on-leaving...

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‘Woman’ (for International Women’s Day)

'Woman'

a faint, what seems like pink
tinges the edge of a cloud— and then my mind

(read in full on Substack)

#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD
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theseainme.substack.com/p/vexations-...

vexations of the spirit

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#US #Ukraine #tradewars #Zelensky #Starmer #Macron #Trudeau

Woman — THE ANTI-MISOGYNY CLUB (for International Women’s Day) a faint, what seems like pink— tinges the edge of a cloud, and then my mind moments later, it breaks into something else a spectrum ...

"the freedom every woman should get today

made the neanderthal behind me spit fire

I ear to eared— cheered"

In honour of International Woman's Day (this Saturday, 8th March), Woman by @siodhna.bsky.social is new in our gallery:

www.theantimisogynyclub.com/gallery/woman

'and the ground exhales at the sun' ☀️

Well done Sinead on your brilliant documentary. It's rippling through Irish society at the moment.

I only saw it this week and it inspired me to write this short piece on Substack.

open.substack.com/pub/theseain...

For #ednaobrien. For #blueroad For you.

open.substack.com/pub/theseain...

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the dreamer from the dream (fragments of love)

For #love. For #friendship. For you.

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A first for me. And a surprise when I started to read this poetry collection from Paul Wittenberger. To read my name in the acknowledgements of another poet's collection. Here's to the stepping stones we walk.

Now, I'm higher than anyone here the tree sang so sweetly to the risen air, before it fell both the victims and the perpetrators in a storm— are the tall trees.

Now, I'm higher than anyone here

New poem out today.

theseainme.substack.com/p/now-im-hig...

For #Brigid. For #Imbolc. For you.

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