If you missed Part I, click here first… AN EXCURSION, THE ALDI OUTING, A SHORT STORY Part II We weren’t going till the afternoon, mid-afternoon, which thankfully gave us plenty of time to get a bit of airing into the laundry. They’d been on the clotheshorse for two daysContinue reading “AN EXCURSION, THE ALDI OUTING, PART II; 2 EURO A TROLLEY”
Monthly Archives: February 2020
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY; NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS, DUBLIN
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
RANDOM REASONS
I live in a country where people say thank you to the drivers of busses- honestly. In the mornings, on school runs and city excursions, a country where people say thank you to the drivers of busses, even at middle door exits where they’ll nod, all the same, to the front, to the driverContinue reading “RANDOM REASONS”
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY, 40ft
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
#TopTweetTuesday
Tomorrow is Tuesday but not just any Tuesday, on Twitter it’s #TopTweetTuesday thanks to the wonderful poet Matthew M C Smith, editor of Black Bough Poems and author of the superb poetry collection Origin: 21 Poems (buy on Amazon and read ‘Footprints’ and ‘Daughters’ and you’ll see why it’s unmissable, passionate, thought-provoking, and he’sContinue reading “#TopTweetTuesday”
BACK HOME, A SHORT STORY OF THE COMFORTS OF COMMUNICATION AND CONFUSION
-Where’s the thing? she asks, her mind racing faster than the push-up response of the recline on the sofa. -What thing? I inquire, startled out of a semi-induced state of hibernation to save myself from the 2nd instalment of the evening of Emmerdale which was briefly interrupted by 23 minutes of Coronation Street andContinue reading “BACK HOME, A SHORT STORY OF THE COMFORTS OF COMMUNICATION AND CONFUSION”
IN CONSIDERATION OF WHAT TO PRAISE
Let us praise the Son returned, Mother and not rush to bash the dishes in the sink at the sound of how much I have grown since that shore where I broke from your breast, surely I was meant to be weaned before we both grew wizened. Let us praise the burial of AgonyContinue reading “IN CONSIDERATION OF WHAT TO PRAISE”
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY; COASTS AND CLOUDS
All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
TIDES FOR CHANGE, HAIKU
Tides roll in, roll out, waves recall not where they’ve been but to where they’re bound. All words and photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
CATCHING THE RECALL
They come and go, playing tag with the tide, swimming in to touch but the ocean is an elastic to recall. We came here once, a love of youth’s illusions, dipping our skinnies before I lost you on a breath without recall. It comes and goes; that tide, his touch, this time, so manyContinue reading “CATCHING THE RECALL”
