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Never again we often say But it’s a fond wish sadly The power of evil is very strong Once in our heart it won’t take long For things to turn out badly   Peter Tobin same age as me A long life of disaster Troubled child is said of him What does that mean WhatContinue reading “Looking At You”

Good mums aren’t all kindness They are expectation too They can be like a pressure When you don’t know what to do   They love you without condition But there are conditions all the same They expect you to behave yourself There are standards to maintain   Before I left the priesthood I couldn’t talkContinue reading “Mothers”

Retiring from work is fine No longer part of the work force But retiring from life is not fine What happens to your life force?   No longer part of this world? That won’t do at all We all have our part to play Until the end of it all   If you back awayContinue reading “The Part You Play”

She was everything That makes a person beautiful She had the looks in spades The talent too Musical and sporty Setting out in life Teaching little children Shining light   Now vigil lights are shining All over Ireland Her photo framed forever in our minds After school and exercising By the Grand Canal Attacked andContinue reading “Remember Ashling Murphy”

Granddad came home to his house To find no place to sit down All the spaces were taken (Relations and neighbours from’t street) My granddad pretended to frown   Well this is a fine how-d’you-do I think I’ll live in your house They got up to give him his place He wasn’t a person toContinue reading “A Full House”

  It was Lucas told me That Margaret was in heaven I smiled at my son to hear this news What do we tell our children? About where old folks go They have to go somewhere Has to make sense you know   And I remember Hearing Michael at the funeral How he spoke ofContinue reading “Grandma’s in Heaven”

She once was here This was her house her home And I arrived She’d waited for so long And now I’m here alone And she is gone   I thought that we’d grow old together like I hadn’t planned I just presumed it so But life – or death – is what happens When youContinue reading “A Spirited Lass”

Mark 2:1-12   We want our bodies to be well Thank God for the NHS For doctors nurses scientists as well And lately we have come to realise Our minds need looking after Our mental health needs care Thank God for pills and counsellors Thank God for someone there   And so it was thatContinue reading “Body, Mind and Spirit”

When San Francisco Was being sung by Scott Mackenzie I was stuck in Shropshire In a blinking seminary   Just about says it all   Brian Fahy 13 January 2022

Loch Ness a body of bath water Steep sided hills around And water rippling to and fro And deep deep depths abound And the monster? It’s a wave you see A bouncing rippling rogue Across the surface of the deep The theory now in vogue   We only see the surface We cannot know theContinue reading “The Wake of Water”

Green and brown today The bins out on the street Ready for collection Recycling or landfill Or compost come to that All our rubbish Taken in a cart   One day a box will come for me Take me to a grave We all end up as landfill in the end Though that’s not strictlyContinue reading “Collection Day”

Jesus meets a leper on the road The man falls to his knees His life is a heavy load Cast out of all society Living on his own Disfigured in his flesh He is putrid flesh and bone   Desperate to be well he sees the Lord The holy man who heals Here he isContinue reading “Be Good”

We never do wrong these days We make an ‘error of judgement’ And as for the garden party That wasn’t wrong ‘But we could have done things differently’   It’s part of the culture now Since nobody now tells lies ‘We are economical with the truth’ Sounds better in disguise   Rules are never brokenContinue reading “Mind Your Language”

When a baby first smiles back You know you’ve made connection The smile you gave so willingly Is paid back with affection   A girl I know when Margaret died Told me a powerful thing Whenever she saw Margaret It made her smile and sing   My grandson Noah only two I always catch hisContinue reading “A Smile”

Mark 1:29-39   Like a monk in the Scriptorium I sit to write the word The Gospel that is spoken Or written must be heard   Jesus in Capernaum Now his cover’s blown Spoke the word and healed the sick They claim him for their own   But he has many miles to go AndContinue reading “On The Move”