Family Irish Poems

im irish
outta new york
your 2 turn in a table
gutter pork
fake brass rings detailing how
wedding ventures
meet her news cow
ill and straight
the dhali llama's
trying to show you
how...

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And so my brain prepared itself for a memory.
It knows how to now.
Instead of waiting for damage to remember along the lines, it just warned.
It...

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The Thing About Flying
David J Walker

Everyone said it was 
Okay for you to fly

It was a good day
And what does dying 

mean anyway
if you can’t...

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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IRISH 
You won’t play professional basketball
Your cousin is a cop
Or maybe just a fireman
Your swearing just won’t stop
You think that...

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I'm a piece of Ireland, far away across the sea,?
American I've become but I'm very proud to be?
Forever Irish; and forty shades of green?
I sing...

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We Irish are cute
When wee  babes and young pups
But then we grow up!
...

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IRISH GIRL LOVE SONG
Don't love an Irish girl.
She's gonna do you wrong.
She's a hard hearted woman
and she won't stay home.
I got some Irish blood
in my...

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WHAT IT MEANS To BE IRISH 
You won’t play professional basketball
Your cousin is a cop
Or maybe just a fireman
Your swearing just won’t stop
You think that...

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My Irish Granddaughter

Me pancakes be green this morning
Me bread at me lunch be too
Me beer may be green this evening
But that’s where the green is...

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I have a bit of Irish in me
From Grandma Mary Halloway.
My German part is quite subdued
On this my grandma's holiday.

The Scotch and English part of...

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children emigrate

as Ireland’s cubs journey down

old ancestral paths...

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Copper shimmering hair
Chartreuse eyes with flecks of grey
Freckles splashed across creamy skin
A wide set jaw so becoming of the Irish
A gap between the front teeth,...

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An Irish Gathering
 
Thomas said
you can’t go home again
but I did for my sister
and the christening of her first.
Everyone, on folding chairs, against
the whitewashed basement...

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Me great, great, great-grand pappy-died
His son, sailed away from fighting Ireland
In the wake of the potato famine, sought land
Farming his love, many sons his pride
Irish...

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I have a bit of Irish in me
From Grandma Mary Holloway;
My German part is quite subdued
On this, my grandma's holiday.

The Scotch and English part of...

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