Mai Murphy Venn

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It's time for me to write once more
But my mind flowed slowly of inspiration
It's May Day, as I glance around
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A Country on Its Knees

Come, all you people of Ireland's green land,
Follow the march and give us a hand,
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All alone
You came to the grounds of Granard'sChurch.
Frightened; forsaken,
What could be worse?
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This fairy woman of Ireland, set in history to be forthwith.
Messenger of death, is part of our folklore and myth
There are many tales of her sorrowful sound and sad cry
The wailing lament of the Banshee sigh
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You come into my dreams,
I cannot stop you,
You enter the corridor of my most inner mind,
Plundering, trampling on my hopes of joy.
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Hell on Earth

Woe to you, Sister
And woe to your cane.
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My memories are full of the doors and corridors of my life,
Kids wondered why I had no kin other than a grandmother.
Being fatherless, followed by the shame of it, plus unwanted by a mother,
The first corridor is of early childhood, living in an Irish Catholic cocoon.
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Jukebox Blues

At the café, there was a jukebox playing,
Those Brown Eyes, I know the song so well.
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There is a vast bizarre storm approaching the land of the shamrock'

It is brewing awhile, changing its direction and its appearance.
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I am a Thinker by the Sea,

One million footsteps in a display that adorn your strand,
Seashells lay lightly, quietly on your golden sand,
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I was never one for housework, nay,
Not me, Goodness gracious, ME? No way!
I love to learn how to be sharp and bright,
To be a writer or a poet - out of sight!
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Two hundred year later, at the 98 Commemoration
We all gathered around to celebrate in anticipation,
We dressed up in our peasant rags, brogs, shawls and wigs,
With our musicians and dancers, our reels and our gigs.
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Oppression of Ireland


Why is our country so sad?
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Bleak future of dark clouds appearing from an alien's sky as life goes on.
Every day, traveling deeper into the black hole of a torment,
Fear and confusion,
Wondering what is real and what is not, while dreading what to come.
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15.

Change is all around, in the town, city, and land,
Shall I too bury my head like the ostrich in the sand?
Or shall I rise from the ashes
like the phoenix fresh and new?
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Freedom - Poem by Mai Venn
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My pen is like a silver blade.
I use it in my life long trade,
For words can stir a crowd.
Spoken softly or spoken aloud.
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I look at the telly for the news to see
But look who's face is glaring back at me
That man, An Taoiseach, what's his name he was a TD,
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Austerity - Poem by mai venn

In Greece, people say that austerity is cruel
In Ireland, it has become somewhat of the rule
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20.

1916

They're celebrating 1916 in Dublin, the fair city of Ireland.
Where the government ruled the country like nasty regime.
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The Tears Of Ireland

It's time for me to write once more
But my mind flowed slowly of inspiration
It's May Day, as I glance around

Apple blossoms nod in the breeze
Trees bloom green variations of shade
Across the fertile country of Ireland
Then petals fall like pink flakes of snow
Our pretty landscape is still and quiet
Calm before a raging storm commences
Abortion looming over the realm
Austerity cuts the state in two

But yet

Apple blossoms nod in the breeze
Life goes on for the rich not the poor
Oppression and strife for the deprived
Penniless families going without
Children go to school each day
Older folk goes to Church to pray
Is there a Redeemer on his way?
Or else more tyranny here to stay

But yet

Apple blossoms nod in the breeze
Flowers prosper well in healthy ground
This country, once of saints and scholars
Now a country of cheat and criminal'
Our soil is no longer belong to us
The Bankers and Developers robed all
Left us to pay for their wrongdoing
We are like the lambs let to the slaughter

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