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The poem “A Tree Full of Monkeys” is one of Peter’s classics and has been acclaimed by many as his best work so far.    The title was inspired whilst the poet was viewing icons in the crypt of Glenstal Abbey.  

The poem “Oweenee” from this collection was based on the Biblical book of Ruth, but transferred to Ireland and the USA at the time of the American Civil War.   

There is, of course, the usual blend of light hearted humour running through many of the other works in the download.

Contents:

 Big Browser,   Enough,    Saint Brendan’s Woman,    Bo and Blue,    Fine of Not,    The Crinoline Chair,    Yesterday’s Children,    People,    Another Night in Gaol,    Are You Mad?    The Vacuum Flask,    Pilgrims,    Where Have All the People Gone?    A Tree Full of Monkey,    A Cure for the Common Cold!    Oweenee,   Christmas Cards,    The Garden,    The Wotsit in the Hall,    Celtic versus Rangers,    Delighted,     Slurry,    Mountaineers and Mariners.

(Poems first published 2003)

SAMPLE  VERSES  

 

BIG BROWSER

Closed Circuit TV
Can see you and me
Pinpointing the time and the date,
Or driving too fast
An image is cast
Recording your car number plate;
The camaras are silently watching
The roads and the footpaths and stores,
You’re framed every building you enter,
You’re privacy’s no longer yours. …..…(continued)

 

PEOPLE

Most people,they think themselves normal,
They’re typical, perfect and plain,
It’s the others who may be eccentric
With ideas that are sometimes insane. …..…(continued)

YESTERDAY’S CHILDREN

They slept in their cots that were coloured with lead paint
Trey rode in car front seats, no seat belts or bags,
The medicine bottles had ordinary stoppers,
And behind the school bike shed they drew on their fags;
They rode on their push bikes without any helmets
And often went thumbing a lift into town,
They drank from a hosepipe that lay in the farmyard
And they would’nt care if the water was brown. ..... (cont)

 

A TREE FULL OF MONKEYS

My brain is confused like a tree full of monkeys
With questions all chattering round and around,
Is life an illusion
Inside this confusion?
Are Descartes’ ideas being proved to be sound? ….....(cont)

 

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