The Tombstones
I did not dare to ask you
...come with me
I went alone instead ,
I said...thirty years later...
Looking past the tombstones..
Out to sea.
The Tombstones.
Kristine Byrne. Jan 27th 2014
Kristine Byrne
My Poetry
Poems - 2014
- 1924
- 604S
- A Mother's Kiss
- A Ratty Mouse.
- A Short Encounter.
- A Star Beyond
- A Starving Dog.
- A Troubled Sleep...4 Dreams I Have.
- A Walk in Avondale
- A Wishbone.
- A Woman in the Night. …(a story in short lines.)
- Ada Lovelace…A Story in Short Lines
- All Those Who are Ourselves
- Anemones Japonica
- Anne Hathaway
- Bamba Fodla and Eire
- Barbie
- Beneath the Choppy Sky.
- Bent Wood.
- Berlusconi
- Charleville Castle.
- Counting the Days.
- Dear Diary…
- Desire.
- Don't Should on Me.
- Drift Wood
- Edri Deserta
- Elsa Schiaparelii.
- Ghosts of the wrecking ball
- Glasnevin
- Horror-scope
- How to Boil an Egg
- I am a Guest.
- I Sang
- I Won’t Do That Again.
- I’ll Never Beg Again
- La Vie est Breve
- Le Potager
- Let Us Not Forget
- Life is a Book
- Love.. Jim.
- Lowther Castle : Scotland.
- Madam Tussaud’s :
- Massacre in Korea
- May Tree.
- Moody Monday….Arklow Harbour
- Mother Tongue.
- Mummy and Daddy hold hands..
- My Museum
- My name is Agnes…
- Not the Eiffel Tower
- Oh Portlligat ( Port Lligat )
- On the Road.
- Party
- Peacock
- Rob was nice…
- Safe A reply to Bukowski.
- Seeds.
- She Wore Scarlet.
- Strange sleep...a dream
- Summer.
- That Long Gone Star
- The Beach
- The Blindness of the Night.
- The Bully in the house
- The Colour Red.
- The Crowd Within the Soul
- The Crowning of the Puck
- The Cyclamen.
- The Empty House
- The Fallen Wife….. A true story in short lines.
- The Fear of Dark.
- The Fear.
- The Feasting Kind
- The Grave at Mt Jerome.
- The Inner Child
- The Lament of Malachy Higgins.
- The Love of Rick McVie
- The Mermaid and the Man…..A Spinning Yarn in Short Lines.
- The Mystery Woman
- The Oil Man Cometh….last night.
- The Sullied Wedding Dress… a true story in short lines.
- The Thoughts of Rick McVie
- The Tombstones
- The Truce.
- Unpacking London
- War Zones
- We Never Forget
- Who Will Remember
- Winter Leeks.