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    Lines - a Season of Light, Reflected in the Night: A Season of Light Reflected in the Night
    Lines - a Season of Light, Reflected in the Night: A Season of Light Reflected in the Night
    Lines - a Season of Light, Reflected in the Night: A Season of Light Reflected in the Night
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    Lines - a Season of Light, Reflected in the Night: A Season of Light Reflected in the Night

    By John O’Rourke

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    It was the melancholy prophet as recorded in the book of Ecclesiastes who said, "There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven". Today is the time to complete the introduction to my fourth collection of poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateNov 18, 2011
    ISBN9781465383129
    Lines - a Season of Light, Reflected in the Night: A Season of Light Reflected in the Night
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    John O’Rourke

    John O’Rourke was born in Glasgow in 1961. He was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Cavan and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Ordained a Catholic priest in 1986, when his fi rst poems were written, he spent ten years at Cavan Cathedral and four years as a volunteer missionary in Lagos, Nigeria. Having resigned from public ministry in 2000 John has combined writing poetry along with work with the Department of Justice, VMM, an NGO, teaching part-time at Patrician College, Finglas and adult literacy with Louth VEC. Now the director of Drogheda Creative Writers group, he has just completed his fourth volume of poems.

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      Lines - a Season of Light, Reflected in the Night - John O’Rourke

      LINES

      a season of lights reflected in the night

      JOHN O’ROURKE

      Copyright © 2011 by John O’Rourke

      ISBN:          Softcover                                 978-1-4653-8313-6

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4653-8312-9

      All rights reserved. No part of this book 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.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

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      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Sister

      Life with the Beloved

      Duntochar Burial

      Coastal View

      Conamara after Rain

      Darragh

      View From A Bridge

      Eileen Glas

      Ground Zero

      Genuflect

      September 2010

      Haiti

      Hero

      Uncle James

      Kenosis

      The Moon Beholds Your Sparkle

      Little Boy Born

      Marathon Man

      Sky

      Memory Bank

      Monasterboice Good Friday

      Peace at the Last

      Pilgrimage

      Prayer

      Prayer for Shona

      Paschal View

      Ship Sailed

      Ancient Snow

      Song for Dylan

      St. Cyprien

      To Confirm

      Communion’s Orb

      Sky-Blue Sea

      Thought For Jamie

      Sand Storm

      Snow Breeze

      White Eternal Light

      Advent Home

      In Silent Snow Repose

      Brendan

      Cuimhne Michaela

      The Cardinal Virtues

      The Magherees

      The Colour of Shadows

      Obituary

      Tempus Fugit

      Spain

      Ego Sum Lux Mundi

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Some of these poems appeared for the first time in slightly different form in the following:

      Drogheda Writes 2, The Anglo-Celt, Big Issue,

      The Fermanagh Herald, Abridged 0-18 and some were recorded

      for the Quiet Quarter and for LM/FM.

      And to the Arts Office of Meath County Council

      sincere thanks.

      INTRODUCTION

      It was the melancholy prophet as recorded in The Book of Ecclesiastes who said, ‘There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven.’

      Today is the time to complete the introduction to my

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