Christmas – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

BOOKENDS, SEASONAL STREET SCENES ON A SATURDAY IN PARIS

All photographs by Damien B Donnelly The final photograph is me, today, back at Alesia, the 14th arrondissement of Paris where I first lived over 4 years ago when I came back to live in Paris for the second time. Today I was back here for lunch today with Mary, my dear Irish friend, who […]

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BOOKENDS; KISSED BY SOMEONE ELSE’S KING AT CHRISTMAS

Lights danced on shivering trees dressed in a blanket of snow while a tale was told of a boy, born to be king, to never know choice. I kissed Christmas in someone else’s shadow and we whispered in the absence of his voice. I dreamt of a crib where a kid had kept faith […]

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CHRISTMAS COVER UP

In the shadow of all its history, in the sorrow behind its sparkle, I sprinkle fairy lights on the drying roots of this dying tree. At the summit of all its beauty, from the forest freshy felled, I place a blood red rose on this tree cut down from hope. All words […]

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ONLY AFTERWARDS

He tasted of pine pressed into skin, nicotine fingers and beer bound breath naked beneath the fairy lights and twinkling balls as a cat and dog watched their shadows kissing on the walls. She tasted of punch, cinnamon sticks and orange scents with red rimmed lips and bare naked breasts to blush the baubles, suspenders […]

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LIVING WITH PARIS, 1997, PART II- NO ROOM AT THE INN

If you missed the first instalment of Living With Paris, click the link below: https://deuxiemepeau.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/living-with-paris-part-1-1997-the-arrival/ December 24th, 1997, almost 2 months living with Paris and set to move into my first Parisian apartment, my own home away from the homeland. When I first arrived from Dublin on a rainy […]

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Christmas, It’s A Wonderful Life

Bells and baubles bound to branches While tinsel twists and turns and ties, Santa’s sleighs and snowmen dancing Lights all aglow like stars in skies, On the tree an angel sparkles, Crackers to pull and bells to ring, Neath the tree a manger slumbers With a bed that waits for a King, Reindeers leap with […]

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A New Year

A new year, A new day- Sky’s still grey. A new year, A new day, Still raining- Weather’s still the same, No change there, People still on the streets With their brollies- Shopping, Plodding through puddles And slipping in the sales- Buying what they don’t want In wet shoes and stockings, And cursing what they […]