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Poem of the Week | Cork City 1994 by Denis Mockler
Cork City 1994 By Denis Mockler He gushed I love you I thought You don’t even know me, but keep doing what you’re doing. Please don’t stop now. Afterwards we sat by the window of his bedroom, drinking coffee and smoking…
Poem of the Week | A Tree’s First Frost by David O’Sullivan
A Tree's First Frost By David O'Sullivan I feel for you this cold morning your old die, all around, sadness. Then with both hands I hold, comfort your extremities. Painful to my hands trying to warm, no thaw the…
Poem of the Week | Bath with bump by Irene Halpin Long
Bath With Bump By Irene Halpin Long I lie in the water. Is mise an Blascaod Mór and you are a pebble deep within my belly. My hair is a sea anemone, fanned and filtered, waving at the ceiling’s fluorescent sun. I try to…
Poem of the Week | In limbo by Angela Washington
In limbo by Angela Washington Curled up in bed a tiny shrunken foetal figure white hair on white pillow her body scarcely there swamped by white covers still as death in limbo stuck in a no man’s land hovering on a threshold…
Poem of the Week | After All by Hiram Larew
After All by Hiram Larew For some reason you think in a different way as soon as you go outside. It doesn’t make any difference if you’re in the city or far up in the hills. It doesn’t matter if there is time or not or if it’s spring…
Poem of the Week | Two Poems By Siobhan MacMahon
Mapping a New Reality By Siobhan MacMahon When all the old paths have been concreted over, the way forgotten, when words shape-shift beneath your feet, spelling another reality, when you don’t know what to pray for…
Poem of the Week | Let us go then, you and I by Bernadette Gallagher
Let us go then, you and I By Bernadette Gallagher to look at a spider’s web in the fog of a spring morning to see a cat’s tail shoot up as you approach to see the sun lift the mist from the valley to hear a letter drop through the…
Poem of the Week | Two Poems by Eyiamoni Apeji
I think you an Ira By Eyiamoni Apeji Today, I think you an Ira, with curly hair and giant palms I think you tall and funny and full of warmth I think you happier than most with purpose without ghosts…
Poetry Call for Submissions | Poem of the Week
Submission window now closed. HeadStuff is currently busy choosing the next batch of poems for our Poem of the Week series. Please check back again soon for upcoming submission opportunities. What are we looking for? At HeadStuff we seek…
Poem of the Week | Two Lines Meet by Sageanne Senneff
Two Lines Meet By Sageanne Senneff triangular patterns form on your hands kaleidoscoping under the light from the window another tock sounds from the wall draped in dust sun breaks through the glass harmonising with the…