Matt Mooney Poems

Remembrance

The Dublin taxis splash up and down Parnell Square,
Until they die out one by one as the city goes to sleep.
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At four pm waiting your turn
Over by the ATM;
Etched on the cut stone facade
Of the Bank of Ireland,
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So clear the crystal pool beneath the leaves,
Showing how they've bloomed and changed;
They're just girl friends at school once more,
Conversing as if they had never gone away.
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The mild languor of a passing lady’s look,
Her brown eyes half veiled by the breeze
As she cruised casually past our cool café
On her way to Coogee beach, burned me.
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Overseas

So clear the crystal pool beneath the leaves,
Showing how they've bloomed and grown;
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A generation has slipped away-
But they are not to be forgotten.

What of their unfinished plans
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Performing on the prom by the agitated ocean,
That's tired of being explosive in the storm,
Changed from an angry turquoise to sea blue,
A man in Spain stood on a stool to entertain:
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I am
Blowing
At the gate
Summer soon
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And now I know where it all began-
I am looking up straight drills
In a tillage field below the hill
Proud of the ploughman's work,
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Black Kerry cows are out at last in the hill fields
And we live on the promise of the month of May;
Dark clouds hover over the giant wind turbines,
High and white on the straggling Stacks Mountains
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