A weekend of bad news and shocks,
Was in store for the poor Madam Knox,
She’d got off scot free,
But now it seems she,
Might spend decades behind foreign locks.
John Moynes
(ABC)
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They’re thinking of naming the Spire,
After someone that people admire,
Should they go with Mandela,
Or some other fella,
Who’s now in the heavenly choir?
John Moynes
Mr Tierney, our top water chap,
Has got himself into a flap,
Since he paid a high fee,
To set up some I.T.,
It’s time someone turned off the tap.
John Moynes
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
If you add up a decade of pay,
For an industry then you can say,
That wearing a wig,
Is a comfortable gig,
But you’re leading your readers astray.
John Moynes
(Graham Hughes/Photocall Ireland)
New 12 Steps
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Anonymous
By John Moynes
First we admit that we are powerless over literature, that our lives have become meaningless.
Then we came to believe that only a power greater than ourselves could restore us to clarity.
And so we decided to turn ourselves over to the care of an editor, as we understand them.
We made a searching and fearless inventory of our vocabulary.
We admitted to our editor, to our ourselves and to another poet the exact nature of our typos.
We prepared our poems for submission.
We humbly asked our editor to remove our clichés.
We made lists of all persons we had harmed.
We wrote verses of apology to our victims.
We continued to draft, redraft and start to write again.
We sought through reading and reciting to improve our conscious contact with Heaney, Joyce and Yeats as we understand them.
Having had a literary awakening as the result of these steps, we went to Grogan’s, and told everybody.
Pic: DublinStreets
Dennis’s basketball gang,
Are all on the way to Pyongyang,
To take on some short,
Left wing people in sport,
The odds are they’ll win with a bang.
John Moynes
Pic: NPR
[North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. right, and his uncle Jang Song-thaek (in hat)]
Lately life hasn’t been fun,
For our Korean friend Kim Jong Un,
His uncle, it seems,
Had capitalist dreams,
But this time our hero has won.
John Moynes
(AP)
Charles Saatchi’s asserting that if,
One’s wife’s a bit fond of a spliff,
Or maybe some coke,
It’s okay to choke,
Her as part of a family tiff
John Moynes
(The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin)
Apparently now there’s a dearth,
Of women prepared to give birth,
The thought of the joys,
Of young girls and young boys,
Isn’t worth the increase to one’s girth.
John Moynes
(Joe Dunne/Photocall ireland)