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Lost Lullaby
by Patrick Harte
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20th May 2011
ISBN: 978-1-908282-44-6
Price: €15.00
I first became interested in poetry when I was in my teens and have enjoyed reading and writing poetry to the present day. I would read everything and anything, names such as Ted Hughes, Josephine W Johnson, Seamus Heaney and Oscar Wilde etc. Poetry is an individual thing. Sometimes it’s just nice to settle down in a quiet place and pick up a book of poems and just enjoy. The poems in this collection cover a very wide range from love, death, fishing to cutting the grass. I have always held a belief that someday I would get a collection of poems published and that day has finally arrived. I hope you enjoy my poems as much as I did writing them.
About the Author
I have lived and worked in Dublin for over twenty five years. I am currently residing in Milltown, Co Galway. I have been involved in the visual arts since 1996 first as a sculptor and more recently as a painter. My sculpting work is for the most part in bronze and I have exhibited in Ireland and abroad. One of my bronze pieces featured on the Late Late Show in 2001. This is my first collection of poems.
Ticking Clocks
As I listened intently to ticking clocks
Tick-tocking away at time’s measured blocks,
Sculpting the lines on that chiselled face,
Watching precious moments balance time and place.
I look into the mirror at times unrest
And view the only loser in this contest,
The up and down rhythm and rhyme we keep,
Some of us will laugh and some will weep.
But time with all its measuring tools
Passes right on by the waiting fools,
It seems to me lest we forget
The self in motion knows no regret.
