Ashes of Cedar Logs
Hip roofed, low at front, bedrooms in the
loft
dappled light , shade, sweet chocolate box
door of heavy wood above a spotless stone
looks south to the timber mill.
Maddie
is in pain, her back,
A big girl calls to patch her up
fearful four-year-old watches
from beyond the door jamb
brought along behind a bike,
bribed with a moss green beret
to ease time in that house
encircled by trees.
A colossal Cedar of Lebanon stands
outback
Cast its dark shade wide
Rose-beds boxed-in by privet hedge
clipped tight.
The woodshed holds secrets, like gin traps
pole rods to reel in giant pike
Trapper’s gear, un-used ferret pens full
of rust
Bandsaws
hang trapped upon a wall
above a chopping block, the axe stuck.
It will soon be dark
I watch the road to see Pappy going home-
I wanted to go too
he does not
I turn go inside
walk through the door
in that house, shushed.
Love Poem I
Heartbeats all I get what I cross the bay
I see your lights waver in the night light
Never wander.
Dreams in mountains of blue dissipate
In weaving grasses
The way you buckle your bags.
Like a rake in easy life
Last chance
Rings of gold, enough to hang myself.
Smelted to the big not-enough
See her in your eyes
I am a child again, watch the Constable
print.
Wind soughs in the night
In my head
Patterns in the wallpaper are my pen.
Stories of American things, far away
Down the road, that one
I knew you’d go again
Alone.
Love Poem II
Promises slipped off your tongue
In warm salty fluid verbs
My head a silent hum
Walkaway.
Trapped between worlds
Dawns of jaded milky hue
Night Palms silhouette against dusky
Orange sky.
No space to believe
to breathe
It is all too real
I’m chasing down your green-light.
Age of love-letters gone, or
Traced fingered words,
Drop to lost omens
Silent unspeaking stars.
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, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Galway Review and The Irish Canadian Cultural Newsmagazine, New Brunswick.
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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