REFLECTIONS – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

THE TRUTH IN THE WATER for Poetry Day Ireland

It’s Poetry Day Ireland so I am supporting from abroad. This year’s theme is Truth or Dare so throughout the day I will be posting a few of my older poems on Truth and a few more on being Irish… The Truth in the Water I see you, this morning in sweeping reflections in […]

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PARIS IN PICTURES, SCENE ON THE STREET

Wordless Wednesday… All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly

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HALF OF THE WHOLE

Lanterns are tied around hope like we twist naivety around the truth, like we twist around arms as if we can strangle more comfort out of complacent, the need to hold onto something regardless if fragility is tied to a breeze we cannot keep at bay. Winds are blowing in the northern skies while […]

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RUNNING THROUGH THOUGHTS ON A PARK, ON AN ISLAND, BY THE RIVER, IN PARIS

I slipped off to the edge of the city, this morning, where the stream found a stillness and the air a crispness that kept confusion at a distance I stood beneath the bridge that took the traffic and its tension far from me and found the swimming swan rising higher in the […]

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A DEER BY A DOLMAN IN DUBLIN

– Where you there, all the time, I asked myself, for I have not discovered the powers of hindsight, as our words wove like the wind around the whispers the woods were once witness to? – Where you there all the time, I asked myself, in that soft spot of spirit in the fold of […]

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PICTURING PARIS. Saturday Morning Run

All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly

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FLUTTERING HOPE

Silence surrounds this sweet stillness, icicles are falling; tears streaming new paths down old windows once home to fading reflections and the robin and his red chested breast; forever stained, forever beating, flaps through the open field in search of a hushed hope in buds that will soon bloom, in life that will soon […]