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Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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The shutter’s click
gathers the sunlight

softly sifting it

stealing this glance

of you
as you

shade your eyes

against its harshness.

For weeks
your image sleeps

curled up inside
the camera

and only now
awakens

like a Princess kissed

your smile
bright as forever

held
in all its brilliant laughter

...still.

Dónall Dempsey

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Colin J... 11 June 2008

your image sleeps curled up inside the camera Beautiful... Colin J...

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Greenwolfe 1962 11 June 2008

You do write about beauty. That's the merit in what you do. Its probably the only true merit that poetry has. I still don't like the line breaks. Greenwolfe 1962

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