A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.

There is always hope and room for faith. Unless, of course, you trust the voice that screams otherwise, while ignoring the whisper that knows this to be true.

I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.

We can trust God's heart even when we can't trace His path.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.