Loch Lene poem by pd lyons

loch lene

 

Loch Lene

Undulate of diamond silhouettes
North wind skirts a pirouette
Past a fishing heron
Fingerling samurai silver shadow breath
Quite so deep it echoes
Not one golden dream left behind
You’re where I’m gonna be forever

~~~

(for Shelly)

 

 

http://www.bartleby.com/101/638.html  : The Outlaw of Louch Lene ballad by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. 1795–1839

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Lene

 

lough lene

and when they come for you?

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

(Wikiquote, see^[3])

Author

Martin Niemöller was a German pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-communist and supported Hitler‘s rise to power at first. But when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. His crime was “not being enthusiastic enough about the Nazi movement”^{[citation needed]}. Niemöller was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II. His statement, sometimes presented as a poem, is well-known, frequently quoted, and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy.

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We received word that a company was hired by danskbank to move onto Paddy Floods home to remove farm machinery and scrap cars ect over the weekend. We have barricaded the front entrance and Paddys friends and neighbors kept watch at the gates overnight. This is an attack on rural Ireland, an attack on a very vulnerable 70 year old man by a foreign bank.
Paddy made every effort to pay off a very small loan ( not a mortgage ) but the bank refused his offers,Please head to hilltown, castlepollard co.westmeath
Call 0863826299 for directions.

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“Only the Irish working class remain as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland” -James Connolly, 1910.

goodbye galway/ hello castlepollard

 

whose books are these i think i know…

yes will be moving house over the next few days. goodbye galway

hello castlepollard

… and there are boxes (and boxes) to go before i sleep.

Anita Loos