Friday 30 August 2013

Seamus Heaney - d. August 30th 2013

All I knew of poetry 
was a door into the dark; 
you painted the bogs 
with words, lit fires
along the Liffey,
laced Nordic skies 
with wonder.

Read about Seamus Heaney here 

Tuesday 27 August 2013

Mike Winters - d. August 24th 2013


It must have hurt
to live at the edge
of the lens, yet, 
like all good feeds,
you knew,
the straighter the face
the louder the laughs.




Tuesday 20 August 2013

Elmore Leonard - d. August 20th 2013



We'll see your name everywhere;
ballistics reports, rap sheets,
held up in mugshots,
at the bottom of a shot glass,
drained to the dregs.


Friday 9 August 2013

Karen Black - d. August 8th 2013



We sing in praise
of an older woman;
occasionally up
on the marquee,
promising something
with those eyes
but never as easy
as titles suggested.

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Ray Harryhausen - d. May 7th 2013



We were marooned
from birth
on a desolate isle;
you sent Sinbad and Jason
to rescue us,
reimagined the world
in miniature,
to make it bigger.