Once Upon a Time
By Johnoe
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Lets fly back to before.
Before I needed or wanted
Too grow up. Back to the days
I wandered Black Mountain,
Ran free in the bog meadows
Then they put me in school
Wasted my time, should have left
Me to run free, all of my life
Shaped by moments spent contented,
And free on hillside, and meadow
Flying down along this memory lane
I cant forget people, and places
Especially holiday months spent
Joyfully on farms, school days, terror
Filled times eager to read, and write.
Ignored, had to count, multiple, divide.
All such mysterious ways should have
Left me too run free on hillside, and meadow
Boy scouts, Clonard Confraternity, saving grace.
Mc Cances glen sparkling wild,
Roaring waters running through.
Falling in, getting dragged out,
Soaked to the skin.
Walking homewards elated, simple times.
Should have left me too run free.
Never wanted to grow up though I did.
Accepted responsibility didnt do to bad
Didnt do to good all in all
Did the best i could.
Raised a family of three,
My wife Geraldine, and me
Should have left me too run free on
Hillside and meadow.
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Once Upon a Time - Johnoe
Contents
Angels
Nearly Man
Man of Sighs
Saville Justice and Injustice
Hi
It Was Good To See You
Old Friend
Silent Chair
Relax
Adversity of Vanity
You Know
Silent Walking
Moving On In A Song
The Wind Has Stopped
Shadows in Time
I forgot
Frost
Realtime
Longing
Troubadour
It Matters
Street People
Mystery of the Heart
Time
Selfishness
Across the line
Blame It On Your Phone
Enola Gay
Old times
Talking Love
Orange fest 11 night
Halleluiah
Searching
War
Silence
Saville Justice and Injustice
Change
Empty Sky
Un—Forgotten
Youth/Age
Demons At Bay
Wasted Lives
Computer Deaths
Why
It Matters
Happiness
Tomorrows
Telling
Rage
Legacy
Pair of socks
Can’t
Journeying
If
Dancing, with lies
Dreams Are Not Enough
Drinking
Perspective
Yesterday
Being Me
Strolling
Dance of Firs
Dreamtime
Living and Hoping
Banana
Last Night
Tin Hat Days
Belfast
Easy Thinking
Believe in the Soul
Avarice
Cast A Long Shadow
Never Alone
Was Thinking
Knaves Laughing
Empty Arms
Reflections of a Woman
Peaceful Lady
Nothing
Lost in a Familar Place
A Life Well Lived
Heroin Nights
Echo Man
Autumn Drumlins
Abandoned
Back Again
Paedophile Man
Assumption
Garage Rules
Simply You
Simplictity
Drifting
Mordern Piracy
Die Sighing
One more night
Belfast City of Madness
Evensong
Street People
Wasted Lives
Spirit
Emmas Day Out
Old Times/New Times
Broken Leaves
Broken Strings
Players
Indifferent
Hoods Morality—
Echoes
Face Value
Todays Wigan Pier
Halloween
Because of you
Mr and Mrs Blah
Moonlight
Longing
Serious
Letters in a Box
No Regrets
Dancing in the Shadow of the Wind
Mumbia
Belfast City of Madness
Fateful Night
Back When
Angels
I Wonder
Echoes
American Diplomacy
Broken Leaves
Evensong
Imprint My Love
Moments in Time
Waltz
Indifferent
Weary
Serious
Today is Different
Unseen
Wasted Lives
Big City Time
Nightwatchman
Refugees
life, mabye, perhaps
haiku
Why
Don’t Think
Yesterdays Man
Immigrants Souls
The Burning Man
Hi
Immoralist
Nuclear
Love Never Ages
Egocentric Prick
Dark Night
Awhile
Another Smile
Hidden Valley/Alice Springs 2006
Once in Belfast
Relentless
Smile
To Have Lived The Dream
Moments in Time
A Terrible Beauty
Imprint My Love
Shake Hands with My Heart
Lest We Forget
Once Upon A Time
Naivete
Truth
No Epitaph
Provisional Honour
American Diplomacy
One More Night
Loving Life
Dedicated to my former wife Geraldine, and my children Karen, Joanne, and Emma also my grandchildren.
To my fiend who has encouraged me, Joe Rafferty (The humble man).
To Liz Morris/Nee Loughran, a very special person in my life who taught me to have constant thought of others, a very special lady.
Angels
Even angles can’t smile
Always, oft times they relax
And let you smile for them
It’s their way of carrying you
Through a sad or bad day, lets
Have a smile, and light up an
Angel’s day it’s a special moment
That smile lets your angel smile,
Sigh, and walk with you
They shall always be by your side
df.jpgNearly Man
I met a man the other day
He called himself the nearly man
I asked him why, you call yourself
The nearly man, he answered
I was nearly good at sport
I was nearly good at loving
Nearly good at being a husband
Heck I was nearly good at living
Thou just fell short at being good
At anything, so I became the
Nearly man, the nearly man
Dreams his dreams, those actions
Never quite achieved living out his time
In books wishing he was the:- always man
Now he has resigned himself to
His role in life to always being the
THE nearly man
df.jpgMan of Sighs
Gazing sorrowing upon mans folly
The man of sighs knows it will never end
And with his heart in pain he sighs knowing
Mans cruelty to man shall never cease
It has made him despair throughout the eons of time
If 9 /11 was our day of tears his was Golgotha
Crucified by man held erect by nails he forgave
The mourning crowd, even the centurion who
Drove the spear into his side, though did we at that moment
Create this world of sighs, places such as Flanders field
Auschwitz, Vietnam, Palestine, Rwanda,
The man of sighs lives through each enormity
In his forgiveness, great is his pity knowing
That his creation shall commit such dastardly acts
Again, and again we created this, our singular
World of sighs.
df.jpgSaville Justice and Injustice
38 years a moment in time
A white kerchief held aloft
By a cleric called Edward Daly
Not a flag of surrender only a signal
That a wounded man was receiving last rights
13 dead on the day, one lingered in hospital
Until the inevitably happened, he died
14 killed by brutish British paratroopers,
Many score lay wounded as the forces of the crown
Kept murdering and shooting innocent people, lying on the ground
An echo of despair reverberated around the world,
Horror, shock this is happening on a
British
street unthinkable,
Until lord chief justice widgery was told
In no uncertain terms brand them all
Gunmen and bombers, the creditability of those
Innocent ‘deaths besmirched by another British lackey,
The truth was told at a press conference 24 hours after the outrage
They were only children fleeing the rampage of a
Murdering bunch of thugs sent in to sort out the problem
That dastardly problem lay
In the peaceful protest of asking for civil rights
It was accepted as right and proper by the world press
But British pride decried no, we are an honourable people
It did not happen they were all guilty of a crime carrying arms
And so the injustice of British justice witnessed
In full view of British T>V cameras, Guns, bombs,
None were ever recovered from the victims they did not exist
Now 38 moments have past each day e year
For every grieved family until 15 of June 2010
They were cleared of being terrorists
Now Edward Daly
And the press ask, where are the official photographs
Taken38 long years before showing they were the innocents
Sacrificed by British might to sustain the
So called honour of British right
df.jpgHi
How’re you feeling on this
Starlit night are you drifting
Happily enjoying your
New, and old friends.
All of you forever young
Laughing, cheerfully cruising
Along on a glorious
Never ending night.
Your soul
Flowing effortlessly
Through time