MAY not be Spring May 8 2017

 MAY not be Spring MAY 8 2017

The weather is awful here there is no sign of spring

The birds are disillusioned they won't even sing

 It's  the eighth of May and early plants have been lost

Two and three nights ago we had many hours of frost

The skies are cloudy and dark the sun has rarely shown

The grass has not started growing and has not been mown

The nasty a winds have knocked the the crocus and daffodils 

And the iris has barely shown its leaves because of the chills,

There is a reluctance to dig gardens from Cairo to Leeds

And think of the coming harvest by sowing plants or seeds 

I looked up to the Catskill mountains and do you know?

The top of the mountains are covered with new snow

Quite a different story from the month of February

When they had no natural snow for the city folks to ski

Galway 2025 by Tony Fallon

 Galway 2025

In Roscommon town there will be an  Eater parade

Meanwhile in Galway fifteen men will not be afraid

The manager and selectors will be facing a major decision

As we face off against Galway also in the first division

All will want good weather without rain or cold breeze

As they play their first game after short trips overseas

To come back winners from Salthill is our utmost dream

So we must have great players and subs on our team

We must have high fielders who are not faint of heart

And attack the home town heroes from the very start

This is the first year of the new enhancement rules 

When players who give lip to the ref are considered fools

A simple foul of old days mean you are classified as cheaters

And the refere can move up the ball as much as fifty meters

Another major change which has been pushed through

If you kick over the bar from fifty yards it will count as two

So from this day on the long kickers will hold controls

Now three of those long ones count as much as two goals

There will be great expectations from the Murthagh brothers

But it's not a two man team we must depend on the others

When half time rolls around we should be ahead by five

Then in the second half our team goes into overdrive

The win goes to the team with the best sharpshooter 

I predict Roscommon will be ahead at the final hooter

Roscommon 2023

 I've  bèn in America now for more than 50 years

Today in front of my computer I  shed happy tears

In my head I  can still hear the Castlebar roar

But I  still want to sit there and cry a little more

At half time Roscommon was acting a little superior

Another day for our loyal fans not to feel inferior

Even the most loyal fans thought they had backed a tired horse

But David  was beating Goliath and doing it with force

How were they to know our horses were not buried

And that by fuĺ time it would be Mayo who was harried? 

Shakespeare

 Shakespeare didn't have to leave home when he was a kid

He wrote and wrote for days on end and made it big at home

He never learned  Spanish so he couldn't go to Madrid 

He was no better at Italian or Latin so he couldn't go to Rome 

Some didn't understand his sonnetts others disliked his plays

While others didn't like Tony and Cleopatra boating on the Nile 

Some of his contemporaries hated how he could turn a phase

I'm sure others thought him a heretic and wanted him on trial 

SpecialPerson©2024TonyFallon627

 SpecialPerson©2024TonyFallon627

Time goes by so quickly when you meet a special person

You know they are meant for you but you are still not certain

It's first a day and then a week and soon it's ninety days

You have enjoyed the ninety days so much you are amazed

How could this happen so fast you are now going steady

How can you feel doubt and fear and why do you feel edgy

Is it because you don't feel worthy or you don't feel blessed

If luck has fallen in your lap why can you not accept

For many years you played the green fields and spread your wild oats

You know the parents like you you already met the folks

They are well off with a big house and love the only child

There is no doubt in my mind now you two should be combined

TheLonelyTrees©2024TonyFallon620

 TheLonelyTrees©2024TonyFallon620

Living overseas for my home village I have yearned

The memories started popping up since I'd returned

As we drove roads of my youth to temptation I couldn't yield

Without a word I parked the car and walked into the field

As I crossed the ten acres towards the lonely trees

I felt the warm sunshine and the promise of a breeze

They were five fine big shade oak trees planted in a line

On hot close summer days the stock would gladly recline

I wondered why they were planted if it was for shade

The one in the middle hit by lightning was decayed

The flash of lightning in a storm split the tree in halves

And took the lives of the farmers two fine young calves

In the warm days of summer in the mid day sun blaze

Often young lambs played in the shade while their mothers grazed

I wonder if they were commissioned by an English squire

Who wound up with some Irish land far away from Yorkshire

Did he ride around on a horse in fine English tweeds

Or was he conscious of his poor Irish tenants needs

I wonder during the famine were there cabins of sods

Which were torn down for rent money by the eviction squads

The field was part of an estate long before partition

That had been divided up by the Land Commission

In the spreading branches how many birds have nested

Beneath the shadow of leaves how many men have rested

A few feet up all of the trees had some shiny bark

I wonder how many cows had scratched there in the dark

Who were the lovers initials inscribed within a heart

Were they happy forever or did they sadly fall apart

Through the field to school and church there was right of way

On our way home from school we children often stopped to play

It would take a lot of plowing to have a grain crop

The five trees looked like ghosts in winter with no leaves on top.

The farmers son loved Gaelic football and his name was James

So we were allowed to use the field for our football games

Living overseas for my home village I have yearned

The memories started popping up since I've returned

As we drove roads of my youth to temptation I couldn't yield

Without a word I parked the car and walked into the field

The half hour in that lovely field for me was so good

My wife sat silent in the car I don't think she understood

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TheRossies2024©Tony Fallon622

 TheRossies2024©Tony Fallon622

The Rossies minors in 2006 brought us great cheer

And won the Connaught Championship easily that year

We drew the game in Dublin and won the replay in Clare

And sent the Kerry minor team back home in despair

We thought this was the foundation of greater things to come

And we celebrated in Castlerea Athlone and Drum

There was hope of a great team anchored by Donie Shine

He could score with either boot he could score from any line

I was in New York the day of that awful tackle

When Donnie was laid out by an illegal knee or knuckle

We have had some great attackers we've had great defense

We've had some easy wins at home and on the road suspense

That was almost twenty years yet Sam has not appeared

Yet from the Suck to the Shammon the fans have persevered

Now they have come back from a trip to Tyrone with a scoop

But this was not the All Ireland they have to regroup

We have won two games and we are in the final eight

There's no easy game ahead the big guns lie in wait

Win five in a row it'll be a Summer to remember

And bring back memories of a long ago September