The Ballad Of Moss-Free

              The Ballad of Moss-Free                                                                              Refrain:             […]

Terence MacSwiney – Poems Of An Irish Rebel

Ireland has both the good fortune and misfortune to have a large number of martyrs. Many honourable men and women have felt it necessary to step forward to fight the blight of British colonialism. Of those Rebels who were imprisoned, some chose to battle the foreign regime using the only weapon they had left to […]

Connolly – A Rebel Poem

This is a poignant piece of verse about the great revolutionary, James Connolly, who was executed by British forces whilst seriously injured during the Easter Rising, 1916. Connolly was tied to a chair so that he could be shot by a firing squad. Connolly The man was all shot through that came today Into the […]

Darshan

Poem   Darshan   A tender silence enfolds the scene Of ironing board and tea, And mumbling traffic carries lives Many miles from me.   So damn close, Yet still, Apart, She presses to the seams.   I sit incensed with memory And aching, Scented dreams. A.D.

Poem On Tom Barry, by Bobby Sands

Tom Barry was an acclaimed commander of the 3rd, West Cork Flying Column of the IRA, responsible for the famed Kilmichael Ambush which killed 18 British Auxillaries during the Black and Tan War. He was a solid tactician who fought on the Republican side during the ill-fated Civil War. He later supported the existence of […]

Comrades – By Eva Gore Booth

Here we have a poem by Eva Gore Booth, sister of the stalwart Irish rebel, Constance Markievicz who fought bravely in the Easter Rising of 1916. The last two lines are particularly poignant.                                  Comrades   The peaceful night that […]

The Wedding

                           The Wedding   The sheltered grassy haven, encircled by a stream, Caught memories of old, now held in time, Where Elfin folk would play, would dance, their music of a dream, The storied sounds now cast upon a rhyme.   Summer smiles upon her lot and welcomes down the sun, To warm the hearts, […]

A Battle in Your Mind

A Battle in Your Mind   A future hangs upon a thread, suspended by a clean white bed that serves as platter for to feed uncertainty in time or deed. Sterile smiles bounce off walls as footfalls trudge in spotless halls where dreary thoughts loom large and lurk by trolleys, for the reaper’s work.   […]

The Marie Celeste

   The Marie Celeste   Smokey shadows invade my mind; flitting memories of troubled times that lurk in foggy streets and dreams to prey upon my soul it seems.   Blurred emotion rears its head with appetite for pain unfed; laughter dies in agony; blunted whispers torture me and I can’t see the sky.   […]

The Rhythm Of Time – Bobby Sands

  This poem was written by the Irish Republican martyr, Bobby Sands, who died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks prison in 1981. The poem was, like all of Sands’ communications with the outside, written in tiny lettering on pieces of toilet paper or torn pages of a bible, and then smuggled past the vulturesque […]

The Stolen Child

This is one of Rebel Voice’s favourite poems. Although W.B. Yeats was an obnoxious arsehole by all accounts, he could still pen some beautiful verse. This is but one of them. Anyone who has travelled through the beautiful Irish county of Sligo will be aware of the scenery of which Yeats writes. The headline picture […]

Mark It Red

This is a strong poem read by a humble man. Good to luck to Jeremy Corbyn and the people of Britain, who need him more than they may know.