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Mike Crowley

 

 

TINGED IDEAS

 

Poems & Rhymes

 

 

ISBN: 978-1-913275-61-7

 

Price: €10.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Book:

 

This new collection of poems and rhymes was written during the coronavirus lockdown.  It goes without saying then, that many of the poems refer to the virus.

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author:

 

A native of Cork City, he lived in Dublin, Frankfurt, Berlin, Perugia and Rome. He is the author of two novels and three books of poetry. He lives in Frankfurt.

 

 

 

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Sample Excerpt:

 

 

Let’s try and write a book, I said.       
Must be something in a dream,           
the thought woke me while in bed.     
First get up for coffee and cream.       
             Then sat I down with pen and ink,                   
cogitating all the while,                        
thinking about the colour of zinc.       
My thoughts did wander for a mile.    
The coffee cold, the inkwell full,        
and all the day I found no way,           
my cogitating turned out bull,             
and now the morning turned to day.   
             To write a book, I’ll think it over,                   

a writer’s life is not all clover.