Submissions from Tim Murphy, Limerick

 

OUR BOYS

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
AND HAD AND HAD FEW TOYS
IT WAS A TREAT
TO GET "OUR BOYS".
A LITTLE MAGAZINE
OF LAUGHS AND FUN
ADMIRED AND LOVED
BY EVERYONE.
IT'S BEWITCH IN CHARACTER
WAS ''KITTY THE HARE''
THAT TRAVELLLING WOMAN
OF CORK AND CLARE
STEMMING FROM THE PEN
OF V.O.D. POWER
HAD US SPELLBOUND
ON THE MIDNIGHT HOUR
WITH TALES OF HAUNTINGS
AND GHOSTS GALORE
COMING TO US
FROM DAYS OF YORE.
IN OUR GRANDMOTHER'KITCHEN
ON A WINTERS NIGHT
FILLING US ALL
WITH SHEER DELIGHT
BUT ALAS AND ALACK
I'M SAD TO SAY
THIS TALE BELONGS
TO ANOTHER DAY.

Others:

"THE REAPER AND BINDER"

"ON THE BUSES"