by helenmcnulty | Jun 24, 2022 | Notebooks, Painting, Poetry
Poseidon Palm, Watercolour on Paper, 14 x 9cm,...
by helenmcnulty | May 13, 2022 | Digital Images, Poetry, Writing
Nymphaeaceae – Digital Image, 2007, Helen McNulty Nymphaeaceae Among tea breaks and doing the dishesMy memory floats like the water lilies.Pretty little teacup flowersSailing by on waxy green saucers. Under the spell of old glory (that never was, really)I slip...
by helenmcnulty | Feb 18, 2022 | Poetry, Writing, Writing about Covid
Preparation for Lockdown.by Helen McNulty March 2020I am making listspreparing for lockdownalmost believing in the possibilityof an absurd end. A tingle in my nose scared me half to death.Worldometer announced the first fatality in Ireland. Who is this democratic...
by helenmcnulty | Nov 5, 2021 | Poetry, Writing
In moments aloneI am proneTo checking my phoneI am a drone I remember beforeBefore the screenI’d lie on the floorAnd check in on my dreams I’d stare at the ceiling and scroll through my mindI’d feel the cold floor, be a body, defined. Ideas would...
by helenmcnulty | Aug 6, 2021 | Drawings, Poetry, Writing
The Poetry Room, Helen’s Tower, Clandeboye Estate, Co. Down. 7th November 2017. It occurred to me as I walked up the stairs, with my bare feet on the cold hard carved rock of this fortress, that the people who built it and shaped those stairs had little to...
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