Irish-bar – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

TRUTH OR DARE, for Poetry Day Ireland

It’s Poetry Day Ireland so I am supporting from abroad. This year’s theme is Truth or Dare and this final new poem recalls older days when this Irishman was still a growing boy on the streets of Paris… Truth or Dare At 22 we locked the bar at 2am and turned empty bottles […]

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 […]

Passing Relations

We found each other for a while, for a moment That should’ve lasted longer, while we searched For a new life amid ashes of ones already lived With frailties and fractures and losses in each. We stopped for each other- a bond too briefly bred- And in delighted ignorance planned out a future As inseparable […]