Dónall Dempsey Poems

Sitting on the porch swing
the sun sitting at our feet

like a big old dog
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“The grass is crying! ”

So Tilly sees it
& so...it is...so.
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Centuries come
& go.

Time visits
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The stairs sleep
in the moonlight

(haunted by shadows
...

SNOWBALL WARS!

Use a shiny blue megaphone
to magnify the menace
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You climbed over
my silence

somehow got around
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I celebrate
my lover's birthday

glorying in her
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HER OWN SOCIETY

The soul
fed up with its own
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'Oh! Nellie the elephant packed her trunks and said goobye
to the circus...off she went with a clumpity clump... clump
....clump... clump! The head of the herd was calling...
far far away.'
...

Like a ghost
the rain haunts the wind

that screams and begs to be
...