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    The Toga and the Rose
    The Toga and the Rose
    The Toga and the Rose
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    The Toga and the Rose

    By Sheighle Birdthistle

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    Sheighle Birdthistle engages the heart, mind and imagination in her poetry as she contemplates the real and the abstract. The aching need to confront her humanity is obvious and the poetry reflects this longing. This poet enjoys dancing with the absurdity of life and writes with honesty that expresses her love of words. The Toga and The Rose is a poetry of the personal and the universal that takes the reader from the depths of despair to a sublime happiness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateMar 12, 2014
    ISBN9781493141739
    The Toga and the Rose
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    Sheighle Birdthistle

    Sheighle Birdthistle is an Irish poet living in Provence France. While studying at the University of Limerick she spent a semester at Harvard Summer School studying the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Sheighle has a Masters Degree in Modern English Literature and is Director/Founder of The Poetry Corner in Aix en Provence.

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      The Toga and the Rose - Sheighle Birdthistle

      Copyright © 2014 by Sheighle Birdthistle.

      ISBN: Softcover     978-1-4931-4172-2

      ISBN: eBook          978-1-4931-4173-9

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 03/03/2014

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      Contents

      What Beckett’s Endgame did to me…

      Poetry

      Hope

      Words

      Hazelwood

      Even the trees are lonely

      The Hand of God Gloved

      Myth

      Oh Mother Moon

      Gone

      The Poppy Fields of France

      Land of the Sighe

      Syria

      Terror

      Sonnet 46664

      Walls

      The Living Dead

      Starry Night

      Alexander the Great

      Son

      Daughters

      Four Souls of my Body

      The Second Starry Night

      Taste

      Poet

      The Sad Child

      The night before I died

      Fearful Lovers

      A Murder of Crows

      Greece to Google

      Who Cares for a Breaking Heart on a Starry Night?

      Colours

      The Lady

      Prostituted for Silver

      Emigrant

      New Orleans

      Finale

      Crisis

      Lonely Starry Night

      Wild Horse

      A Ribbon of Life

      My Sister

      Problems

      No Title

      The End

      Gossip

      Denial

      Holding Hands

      A Star has Come for Me

      The Woman Looks in the Mirror

      Naked Longing

      Ways to love?

      Black Dog Christmas

      Earth, your dancing place

      Weird

      In Memory

      Easter Sunday

      War

      A Vision of Ulster ’74

      Tiananmen Square

      The Toga and The Rose

      For Sandy and my family

      I love the bones of you

      What Beckett’s Endgame did to me…

      Restrain me from the stillness of oblivion let me dance instead in the magic ring of imagination hop skip and dance to the music of the earth positing a meaning of existence existence out ranging all other emotions or smileys on a screen pretending to send fondness from me to you from you to me scrap the rubbish and face up to truth

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