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Shop On the Street

There's a shop on the street that sells foetid meat There's a boy on the corner His corpse competes with the odour There's dust covering mankind the cruel and the kind Ochre villages and towns where death rains down It's gender specific noisy horrific I seen it on telly I ate ice cream and jelly It's far away from me But my heart is breaking...

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Declan Molloy

Date: 2/6/2018 5:08:00 AM

Thanks. I seems like an age now since i wrote that. My son was fighting Isis in Syria as a volunteer during dark days

Maureen Mcgreavy

Date: 2/5/2018 10:01:00 PM

Checking out your first post, will be back to read more! I love your poetic eye and the way you turn a phrase. Potent penning Declan. xomo

Keith Bickerstaffe

Date: 1/26/2016 7:43:00 PM

Media is ubiquitous these days... we are shown disasters almost as soon as the occur and they become like movies of the week... How can we react to these horrors as they unfold before us? I don't now. Keeping human in our own backyards is a start I guess... A powerful piece well done. BRAVO Declan. Best wishes, Keith

Keith Bickerstaffe
Date: 1/26/2016 7:44:00 PM

whoops... know

Keith Bickerstaffe

Date: 12/19/2015 8:53:00 AM

I love '...gender specific noisy horrific, I've seen it on telly I ate ice cream and jelly,' smooth cadence, great rhyming and imagery. BRAVO Declan! Keith

Skat A

Date: 11/17/2015 10:36:00 PM

Declan :) Congratulations on having your poem featured on the soups Home Page. ~SKAT LOVE~

Declan Molloy

Date: 10/23/2015 11:34:00 AM

Some one close to me has been involved in Syria recently. When I heard about their reality and then related this to others I realised they had not idea what reality was...I had to write this short and dirty poem

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 10/22/2015 2:57:00 PM

Hello Declan :) - Autumn is a great time to write and read poems :) - I welcome you to the P - Soup, with your moving but great first poem :) - Hope you will have a nice time here with us - Best wishes and good luck - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Declan Molloy
Date: 10/23/2015 8:09:00 AM

thank you... I never get much feedback so delighted to get any comment. Poetry is something new for me. I spend a lot of time star gazing (Astronomy), love science don't ya know. I've heard it said that science strives to make the complex simple while poetry tends to do the opposite?

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 10/22/2015 1:57:00 PM

Hi Declan WELCOME to poetry soup. I hope you have fun with this wonderful community. You'll find many friendly poets who are ready to support and give positive feedback. I will enjoy following you and your poetry :) We are Lucky To Have you. Enjoy Poetry Soup:) Your New Poet Friend @-> LINDA <-@

Skat A

Date: 10/22/2015 12:51:00 PM

Deep poem Declan, Welcome to Poetry Soup. It will be a delight to read and become familiar with your poems in the future. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile others passed when I first joined the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here STARTING with me- SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT

Declan Molloy
Date: 10/23/2015 8:13:00 AM

Thanks for the welcome. To be honest I'm new to poetry (couple of months) the first poem I put on the site I wrote a couple of days earlier in an Irish cafe

Gagan Gill

Date: 10/22/2015 10:50:00 AM

Sad :((