Where are the children of Ireland from Cork to County Down?

To live in some quiet place near Mother Nature by a wild wood near where a river flowOn it’s long journey to the distant ocean through woods and fields and by many a hedgerow.I feel that to myself I am a stranger I am not the person that I used to knowThe boy who loved…

His wife in nest of brown moss on her eggs sitIn fork of tree from prying eyes hid away.His pink breast in the mid day sunshine gleamingHe pipes a warning in his territoryTo other cock chaffinches living nearbyTo not venture inside his boundary.I fancy I can hear cock pheasant crowingIn rushy field he cuck all…

By toppling Saddam Hussein he thinks he will out do his dadFor one with such power at his disposal that might seem a bit sad.He talks of World peace and harmony though that’s not in his planBut by toppling Saddam Hussein from power he might prove to his dad he’s a manGeorge W’s axe to…

And singing ever singing as he flyTill cloaked by clouds and lost to human eye.By slated cottage on a hawthorn treeThe redbreast pipes his happy melodyHis patient wife nearby sits on her nestWith tiny eggs beneath her warm breast.The joyful dipper chirping in the streamAnd wildering flowers bloom midst the grass so greenThe wind blow…

And since everyone answers to the reaper’s callThe happy one is the most successful of all.For the top job the happy one does not competeAnd the happy one never feels sad in defeatNot to be a hero or catch the big fishJust to be happy in life is the happy one’s wish.The happy one can…

We become smug and arrogant consumed by our conceitThe humble one in the house of flattery will never find a seat.The ego is so cowardly the truth the ego fearThe raw truth on them is something that few people wish to hearBut of an overinflated ego the truth can set us freeIt can make us…