One Superb Poem by Margaret Kiernan

 

Beyond Words-babies without amulets

 

Margaret might choose to read tealeaves in cracked bowls

Shore the world from news

 

Forecast Abbas will leave the table with his cigarettes

The tar throat pass-over. Margaret is it too late?

 

At his funeral feast of laments, Margaret may cast lots for kids

Still holding sound within their mouths

 

Margaret could rescue them, perhaps

Return billions  to Fort Knox

 

Make holy again the Torah, Margaret could possibly

Attempt a treaty with Divinity

 

Margaret sees no child beneath bludgeons

Rather crush  heads of the cabal

 

Those who drive Tanks over baby beds

Margaret perhaps  cast your spells.

Margaret Kiernan writes fiction, non-fiction essay, memoir, and poetry. She has had poetry and prose published in e-book, in anthology collections, and literary journals and magazines - including, Black-lion Press, Pendemic.ie journal-C19 collection , archived at University College Dublin, The Blue Nib Lit-Journal , The Write Life Magazine, Unity Global Festival, Vox Galvia at the Galway Advertiser, A New Ulster Literary Press, The Burrow Lit. Journal, Poet-Head.Wordpress.com and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.

She writes with Over the Edge, Thursday writing/reading group at Galway Arts Centre, and, Ox Mountain Poets, Sligo.

She is listed in the Index of Contemporary Women Poets in Ireland, 2020. 

She holds several Educational qualifications, Including a Degree in Arts in Humanities, from Sligo IT.

Her background is in Advocacy in Human and Social Rights.

Margaret has completed numerous courses and workshops in writing, for prose and poetry.

Tutors in poetry includes, Annemarie Ni Churainn, Martin Dyer, Colm Keegan, Monica Corish, Moyra Donaldson, Noel Monahan, Kevin Higgins.

Tutors in prose includes, Claire Allan, Anne McMaster, Conor Kostick, Carlo Gebler, Malacai O’Doherty, Jan Carson, Ciara Doorley.

Margaret has four grown-up children. She lives in Westmeath with her dog Molly. She is a landscape painter. Is into Nature, walking, gardening, music, and heritage. She is working towards a First collection in Poetry.

 

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