" ROCKY ROAD TO CUBA " |
Not needing much
i kissed mum and dad
packed an overnight bag
some beads some jihad
You lay before me
s...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:42:00 PST |
" A RECIPE FOR DISASTER " |
Some gems gleaned from an "Observer" book review. You don't have to own a puppy on a string to care about these issues .
"Chronic overconsumption with its attendant ills (obesi...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:57:00 PST |
"LONGING FOR LOVE DURING A WET SUMMER" |
The swaying junkies wave back at the Tara romantics
injecting some humour into solemn marchers.
its the feelgood factor
somebody likes us
during the deluge......thanks Bob
Dealing from the bott...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:27:00 PST |
" BARS " |
On the windows of secure institutions.On every town and city street
and in the minds of men who drink in them......
bar the odd one
-that is.
Tony Mac Cárthaigh ....
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:07:00 PST |
"HERDS / Le BROCQUY and HOPE " |
hobbled to local shop for paper....Achilles' tendon tear reducing mobility and self esteem....speculating on way whether the herd would leave me behind wounded and vulnerable. ...a sitting duck for an...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:51:00 PST |
"NO COMFORT FOR STRANGERS" |
Hissing they opened.....wet , damp we crowd in
to face ,
too old
for the push chair
his prison his viewing platform
he knew......everything
while she frozen with fatigue
swayed and waited.
"Brúi...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:33:00 PST |
"MUSINGS FROM CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND" |
"Be regular and ordinary in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work" Flaubert............all clothes-horses take note.
"if mere likeness to the...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:49:00 PST |
"THE SEARCHERS" |
As a smiling child asking for "help" at the door, her inate bonhomie had broken barriers, but now leaning into the open yellow skip she, busy, didn't feel his approach until he had drawn level. Level ...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:13:00 PST |
TAOIST ROAD MAP ....A LIFETIME STRUGGLE. |
Sitting quietly doing nothing
Spring comes
and the grass grows by itself.
The wild geese do not intend to reflect their images
the water has no mind to receive them.
An old pine preaches wisdom
a...
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:49:00 PST |
"BARS" |
On the windows of secure institutions.On every town and city street
and in the minds of men who drink in them......
bar the odd one
-that is.
Tony Mac Cárthaigh ....
Posted by Artist/Painter..Tony on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:55:00 PST |
