Went to gym with some fencers and am feeling better. Yeah endorphins!

"Canal Bank Walk ( Read more... )

P.S ( Read more... )

I've just been thinking ( Read more... )

I AM THANKFUL FOR SNOW.

IT IS SNOWING IN DUBLIN. BEAUTIFUL.

I FEEL LIKE I CAN BREATHE AGAIN.

Have come across two very powerful poems in the last couple of days ( Read more... )

Places I've been since coming to Ireland ( Read more... )

MM just told me to read this poem, Max Ehremann's "Desiderata." It's a nice poem, and I especially like the last line ( Read more... )

I think this poem might properly express just how shitty my own poetry is.

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occassionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pool's mire.
They also smelt a great deal.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings
Greenbridge
Essex

yknow, I've written some really shit poetry in my day.

I'm not even sure if 'shit' properly expresses how absolutely shitty it all is.