New Poetry by Breda Wall Ryan

Childhood Sin

...the earthworm

we split

to see the head

grow a tail

the tail

a new head

instead

five simple hearts

failed

one by one...

another regret

- Breda Wall Ryan 2013

       

Stardrift

Nights we lay still as hares

in our grass form,

balanced the rising moon

on our toes,

skyward-stretched arms

finger-tipped with stars.

Tonight you sit alone

in the screen’s blue glow,

tea cold at your elbow,

while I watch

distant balefires,

light years between us.

- Breda Wall Ryan 2013

Breda Wall Ryan has been shortlisted for several international literary prizes for fiction and poetry, most recently The Fish Poetry Prize, and won the UCD Anthology Contest(poetry) 2011. Her work is published in anthologies and in journals. has won or been shortlisted for several literary prizes. A member of Hibernian Poetry, Dublin, she has an M. Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity C ollege, Dublin. She has completed a short story collection, The Hardest Winter and Other Stories and a poetry collection, The Woman who Toasted the Owl.