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    Chasing The Wind
    Chasing The Wind
    Chasing The Wind
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    Chasing The Wind

    By James Linnane

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    James Linnane is a poet and storyteller from Ballivor in County Meath whose writings pay scant regard to what is considered acceptable or to mainstream sensitivities. A candid and often endearing account of a life lived hard, the poems come with a humour and observation that is more than just simple musing. Old as he says is a season in itself and he rails against the inequities and injustice of those who simply don’t care or as he describes as hiding in a land of the dead. The rhyming and pattern of beats here is often excellent and come with a caution that is unforgiving whether he is reflecting on kindness or the madness of war or simply remembering childhood. A soul-searching account of a journey well done but with a price to pay he writes with a passion or play on words that finds inspiration in other texts and is a reminder that times change and don’t sit comfortable.
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    Frank Murphy, (poet and author)Killmessen, Co. Meath

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Linnane
    Release dateApr 1, 2020
    ISBN9781916380219
    Chasing The Wind
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    James Linnane

    James Linnane was born in Galway, Ireland. He has had various jobs with a career spanning bar work, security, construction and engineering work. He now lives in Ballivor, County Meath, with his wife and two daughters. His first book, 'Never Take an Irishman Seriously Unless He’s Armed' was published in New York, in 1988. 'The Life and Times of a Gotcha', published in 2011, comprises a fictionalised memoir of his experiences working in the security industry. James is a member of The Meath Writers Circle, also The Boyne Writers and the internet writers group, Splinter4All.

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      Chasing The Wind - James Linnane

      Chasing the wind

      by

      James Linnane

      ePub: 978-1-9163802-2-1-9

      Mobi: 978-1-9163802-2-6

      With thanks to my wonderful techy daughter Stephanie for all her help and my thanks to Gert and Simon

       Introduction

      Well my friends here I am back again another minor tome of poetry. I have been scribbling poetry since I was 17, good and bad, about everything that happens in my life: joy, pain, despair, frustration, love, hate and anything in between, can induce a poem from me. It is how I express myself. It is truly a part of me and a way to speak the things I feel and think. Some are writtten about others, some are just my mad imagination, or taking a swipe at an unfair society.

      Changes as I age, as life changes, as our world changes around me. My fears and worries, my children small, then grown up, my wife and I getting old and sick betimes. Friends and relations dying, leaving me bereft and lost. Moving house and jobs in younger days, in and out of hospitals as I age. I remember days protesting, involved in political activity, mostly ending in disappointment, as life often does.

      My sense of humour is important to me and I do try to have it in my writing whenever I can, some things I write tongue in cheek and indeed some are serious. Life is far too serious, never lose your sense of fun.

      But our world is never to be taken for granted, we learn every day, see new things, learn as we grow, regardless of age. I have led a very full life and I hope this is reflected in my writings. I have also been in some great writers groups through the years and these people have certainly been part of my education and learning my art, an ongoing thing, till I wind up under the sod. You people take care out there. I send you all my love, thank you for reading my latest book of poetry, I do hope you enjoy it.

      Regards from,

      James Linnane,

      Ballivor,County Meath.

      Ireland

      2020

           I was determined to learn the difference between knowledge and foolishness, wisdom and madness. But I found I might as well be chasing the wind. The wiser you are the more worries you have, the more you know the more it hurts.

            (Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 Verse 17)

      Index

      The Thinking

      A Way Home

      A Shadow Of Myself

      As You Leave

      Cheated

      Damage Limitation

      In Love And Peace

      Chasing The Wind

      Fling Wide Your Doors

      For The Best

      Making Faces At The Mirror

      Last Stand

      Never Learn

      Insomnia

      Big Bad Roy

      Fuck The NCT

      Get Over It

      Lines Across The Ether

      Ireland Why Do You Weep

      My Brother

      The Long Ten Minutes

      The Swan

      The Godbox

      The Healing

      The Aftertaste

      The Fallen

      The Quiet Tumult

      So What's The Point?

      Wha Wha Wha?

      The Washing Machine Has Eaten All Of My Socks

      Waterwars

      Unctuous Company

      With Love In My Heart

      All About The Money

      Wet Turf Won't Start A Fire

      To An Unseen Enemy

      Too Much Sex

      We Shall

      All Under Control

      Crimes Of Passion

      Mistakes

      But God Was Laughing

      Another Babylon

      A Wasting World

      Give And Take

      Crushed

      This Land

      The Upside Of Down

      The Wake Up Call

      The Extra Mile

      Play Ball

      Reap And Sow

      Parting

      Snakes And Adders

      Sovereignty

      Some Other Evening

      The Doing And The Brittle

      Spider

      If I Cared For You

      The Restless

      9/11-The Lies They Told

      The Lonely Planet

      What's The Damage

      Over Now

      Skyline

      Soul And Body

      Still Breathing

      Old Friend

      Spectator

      The Dead

      The Glowing

      Blazing Suns

      Dreamtime

      Me And The System

      Dissipation

      Held

      I Sold My Old Car Today

      The Joke

      This Nation Will Rise Again

      But Still We Stand

      Temples Of Lies

      To The End

      About The Author

      The Thinking

      The sky is raining, my heart's in pain,

      There seems to be no reason but there is one just the same.

      All might be well but I am still unsure.

      Every day is heaven sent, my mouth is closed, my thoughts are pure.

      Everything I know is contradicted by some new lesson.

      I will unlearn, I must unthink, sinking, sinking, a progression

      Of uncertainty, an island, a hard wave,

      A long shot, a despot, coming and going to pieces,

      Now then write it, feel it, touch it,make the play,

      Play the game, crave an audience and kill the scene,

      Dream a big mountain, build your castle on sand.

      Braving the days, as destiny paves the way

      For some ridiculous aftermath to what has gone before.

      He who loves his life will lose it and lose it,

      He who hates it must take no chances,

      Must cover all bases and cower and cower.

      From infinity itself, there is no plain of thought,

      That is in itself perfection and the unraveling of all.

      Those little details would surely lead to madness,

      The sorting, sifting, correcting and shifting

      Thoughts and logic. I go from place to place to place,

      There's no pinning it down, there's no coming face to face,

      Life is life is crap, but just the same we do our best.

      Our best is never enough, but we must make do

      For now. I don't really wish for answers,

      I don't really care to know at all about the deep meanings.

      Warm feelings, and pleasant evenings by the fireside,

      With your cat, imagine that.

      Do not seek too deep, depth is merely an illusion,

      There is no clarity to be found, only encroaching darkness,

      Poaching our last grain of sanity.

      Don't listen to the voices,

      They can only destroy, destroy and consume

      You up, in the all obliterating flame. Thoughts

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