 Clare O'Reilly
Clare has had a poem published in the Sunday Tribune (Hennessy Literary Awards) and has come second in the Cecil Day Lewis Awards adult poetry. She is a primary school teacher (for her sins!) and teaches Senior Infant Girls (aged five-six years). She loves writing, particularly poetry, especially enjoys the Northern Irish poets, e.g. Paul Muldoon. |
Four Year Speak by Clare O'Reilly | He's three foot four
An inch for every year
The grown-ups talk in code
Traffic jams are not sandwiches
Hard shoulders are pieces of road
Playing - up- well, it's not a great game
Listening carefully to the spaces in their speech
Sometimes he hears what they miss
The language of the ridiculous |
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