Say Yes,

Posted in Poetry, Writing on February 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Say yes

and forever

say tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, but never without you

and with leaps and strides

and into these arms, with golden thoughts

and secret bowers and stolen kisses

and lingering touches, for those who miss it

Say yes

-Seamus

(Take that Hallmark!)

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Skyfire

Posted in Burning in Effigy, inspiring, Poetry on July 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

In field of grass, auto’s light crawls

A field of cars in noble cause.

On desert wind, a hint of dust

the sun beyond the eve of dusk.

All friends gathered, under pale night

anxiously wait, sound and light.

Into sky, far ‘bove our heads

lightning crowns, stars violet bled

and thunder rolls, oh cannon’s dread.

Upon falling star, to sky once more,

the prisms dance to happy roar.

And from one, many, oh pregnant pause,

hell unleashed, to mad applause.

-Seamus

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Zombie Limerick

Posted in Poetry, Snarkanoia, Writing on December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I once met a lady quite rotten,
Whose eyes were the color of cotton.
She writhed and she moaned,
and her embrace was quite prone,
to leave your brains ill-gotten.

-Seamus

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Searching for inspiration

Posted in inspiring, Navel Gazing, Poetry, Writing Process on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Greetings,

Last week I posted a song in response to a post by Miranda Suri about what turns you on to write. I struggled with what song to pick, more than a few came to mind.  I thought it might be something worth sharing. For the writers in the audience I hope I am preaching to the choir when I say Leonard Cohen is extremely evocative music and great listening for inspiration.  If you are wondering who I am talking about, you need to get yourself to your favorite source of music and start exploring.  But first, go here.

Leonard Cohen, “Take this waltz”

There is a wealth of narrative and emotions waiting on you in his works. I saw his most recent concert here in Austin.  It was nothing short of a magical experience.

-Seamus

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Pandora, I adore ya…

Posted in Burning in Effigy, Catch as Catch Can, Daye Jobbery, Poetry, Writing on October 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »

1.  I sit here this morning working at the Daye Jobbe, processing through spreadsheets and figuring out some fiddly bit work things.  This would normally be tedious, but today Pandora has decided that it would deliver pure candy-coated, nostalgic joy to me. Those of you use it know what I am talking about.  Those days where every song is ripped straight from your heart in a perfect progression of emotions, tempo and theme.  Ah yes…

2.  I am promoting this site now heavily among those of you who know my SUPER SECRET identity. Don’t give in to the Voodoun that man is beaming at your noodle!  Stay with the flock, keep up radio silence… The next installment in my gradual slide into the madness of writing shall be coming shortly.

3.  I should note that some of the posted poetry have mature themes… Caveat Emptor!

4.  This weekend ahead is a good one, the hunting season draws ever closer and this mornings walk was actually quite chilly. The hoodie stayed on.  I think Sunday we will be going to pick up pumpkins at www.sweetberryfarm.com.  It has become a family tradition to go get an obscene amount of orange squash for the express purpose of lobotomizing them and making them into lanterns.  I highly endorse this process as squash has no natural purpose beyond this and I deny any statement to the contrary.  We shall also make a scarecrow… Though we have no crows I mount “him” on a bamboo pole in the front yard like some scene from a jungle work camp.  We name him George.   This precedes the Thanksgiving annual spear toss into the remaining yard squash with my Zulu spear and the burning in effigy of George.  Only in this way may we have a good crop of corn in the coming year.  Dont judge me.

I am breaking with this whole “5 things makes a post” methodology… 4 things makes a post today

-Seamus

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