Boots
Generational
perspective on strife
Rattle-weed hums in wind
babbles gibbers
spews out seeds
knows that wars last
only so long , the
rusted arguments
will drag over ground
where grasses
withering in torn boots
laces intact
drenched in tears
from mothers,
yet to be born.
Solitary voice
St.
Honore, France
Solitary voice raised in startled lament
The knife wielder all powerful
The Bataclan still remembered, it’s
un-redacted
pain. Now evil , a man, came to school
To halls of pre-eminent fame
With a weapon
Skilled in sleight of hand
He smoulders with rage
Preys on the easily captured in a children’s
assembly place ,all barter denied
Just sullen crushing a blade into soft skin
with a point. Those that send him await
In allied states ,with passions on fire
for moments when one man dies.
Margaret Kiernan - nominated for Best of the Net in 2021, 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.
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.
Social Media-
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/margaretgibbonskiernan/@kiernanmargaret
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