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Tuesday July 1, 2009

Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page

If you have a poem you'd like to see published in The Irish Examiner then send it to:

The Poetry Corner
The Irish Examiner USA
1040 Jackson Avenue, Third Floor
Long Island City
NY 11101

or, preferably, you can email it direct to
ronniemcginn@eircom.net.

If possible keep your poem to 20 lines. You may choose any subject you like, in any form you like as long as it's original. We look forward to hearing from you.

As the fourth of July approaches I am reminded of a poem in the book 'My Road' by Marion Rose Horgan, from Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland. If you haven't already got a copy, email me and I'll let you know where you can order one. It's a book well worth having and a keepsake you will always treasure.

Marion tells us that her poem 'Independence Day' was written to celebrate the birth of her nephew, David Warren Hughes, on the 4th July 2002.

It gives an entire new feeling to the occasion. Dave Horgan and his wife Trish were expecting their fifth child in 2002. Dave, who has always been a fan of America and all things American, thought that it would be really special if the baby could be born on Independence Day.

Trish, who is the epitome of organization, was more interested in getting the baby into the world on the earliest possible date, but being the dutiful and devoted wife she is, she duly obliged and David Warren Hughes was born on Thursday, the fourth of July 2002, weighing in a sturdy 9lbs.

Dave's sister Marian Rose was icing a chocolate cake to celebrate the baby's homecoming when these lines came to mind...