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Poems

Melody on a guitar string

June 5, 2020July 29, 2007 by John McCullagh
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A discarded guitar string evokes memories  …

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A Gift of Time

June 5, 2020July 23, 2007 by John McCullagh
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The following is a story, in verse, of a patient at Newry Hospice.


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O’Neill Avenue

June 5, 2020July 13, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Have you ever been to the Avenue?

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Ballymacdermot Court Cairn

June 5, 2020July 11, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Every stone retains its memories

Of hands that gripped and heaved,

Of beads of perspiration,

Of whispered secrets,

And gossipy conversation.

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Returned Emigrant

June 5, 2020July 5, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Paler and thinner the morning moon grew

Colder and sterner the rising wind blew;

The pole-star had ser in a forest of cloud,

And the icicles crackled on spar and on shroud,

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Cashing in our Chips

June 5, 2020July 1, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Satellite winter of ’64:

“Baby Please Don’t Go”,

Jukebox choice with our fish and chips,

“You know I love you so.”

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Man of the North Countrie

June 5, 2020June 28, 2007 by John McCullagh
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Thomas D’Arcy McGee is the most famous former citizen of Carlingford. He is renowned as an outstanding Canadian politician. He was also a poet of some acclaim. The following is his ‘Man of the North Countrie‘.

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To Lilian McArdle

June 5, 2020June 24, 2007 by John McCullagh
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The gift of music seems to soar

Above our cradled town,

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Reverie

June 5, 2020June 21, 2007 by John McCullagh
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‘Twas midnight when I chanced to stray

Along the silent Merchants’ Quay,

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