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My Belfast Bomber

by John G.Hall 

Posted: 17 October 2003
Word Count: 81
Summary: Dangerous lover..
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My Belfast Bomber

I found a singer who knew my song
who loved my lyrics with her slender voice
But my fingers played too fast to follow,
squeezed too hard on loves hair trigger, back fired
at close quarters, my innocence a hidden gunner.
A sound in the soul that ricochets continuous
with the crack in the night , the powder flash
and the perfume of cordite, my last post played
on the torn bodhran of my sweet Belfast bomber.



John.G.Hall©2003






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Skeetr at 23:54 on 13 April 2004  Report this post
Wow, John G., you do have some mighty, mighty stuff published on WW! How could this not have garnered comments -- was everyone asleep back in 2003?!

Anyhoo -- better late than never: I loved the rhythmic energy of the piece, which you indicate is a 'dangerous' one from the start with the title. The "torn bodhran of my sweet Belfast bomber" is a highly evocative line and a great ending -- "the heartbeat of Irish music" = the torn heart of the speaker as he loses his "singer who knew my song." That is the heaviest of heartbreaks, to lose (from squeezing that trigger too hard) a sound so close to the soul.

This is just the kind of poem that 'hurts' so good to read.
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