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Orla Grant-Donoghue

Orla Grant-Donoghue

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Poet, Writer, from Dublin, Ireland

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Our Forever Truth

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Let our hearts live our
forever truth; what’s in your
heart is in mine too.
© Orla Grant
First Posted on Instagram

Huge thank you to the ByMePoetry team who shared it on their worldwide Instagram ByMePoetry page.

Dublin Poet, Haiku, Irish Poet, Journey, Life, Mircopoem, Poem, Spoken Word

Cold Heart

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Your finery was
all a show. Beneath it lay
a heart, frayed and cold.
© Orla Grant

First posted on Instagram

 

Life, Poem, Spoken Word

Dance with me

cosmic

Dance with me until
the tide turns. Feel the cosmic
waves gatecrash your soul.
© Orla Grant

First posted on Instagram

 

Haiku, Poem

Hope in Suspension

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Invisible wire
holds hope in suspension while
our hearts realign.
© Orla Grant

First posted on Instagram

Irishpoet, Journey, Life, Poem, Spoken Word

Flickering Pools

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Haiku, Irishpoet, Poem, Spoken Word

Misled Heart

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Misled heart, disguised
love. Uproot desire. Walk and
seek love’s hidden truth.

© Orla Grant
First posted on Instagram

Haiku, Poem

Freefall

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Freefall to a place
where my mind is free to hear
my heart speak its truth.

© Orla Grant
First posted on Twitter

Love Signs

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Love signs among clouds
reveal a skyline of hope
as hearts shout for love.

© Orla Grant
First posted on Instagram

Haiku, Poem

Return my Love

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My heart was a loan.
It was never forever.
Please return my love.

© Orla Grant

Haiku, Poem

Sunshine

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People ask me do
I miss you. What can I say?
You were like sunshine.

© Orla Grant
First posted on Instagram

Haiku, Poem

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Blue tint of falling tears soak the canvas in muddy blue. Burnt orange of earth mixes with white, Unsure of what to become. Like shadows made by an unseen hand, Faint pencil lines reveal form where all is in the eye of beholders. @orlawrites Extract from Salvador Dali's Down the Rabbit Hole by Orla Grant-Donoghue. Recorded at Porchlight Studios, Dublin #porchlightstudiosdublin The full recording is on soundcloud.com/orlawrites This poem is published in Voices (27 voices from around the world) by @voicesofpoets @miriamo77 #voiceoverartist #voicesofpoets #globalvoicesunite #salvadordali #artpoem #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #poetrycorner #poemoftheday #spokenword #poetryoutloud #recordingstudio #poem
Poem from new anthology Voices (27 poets from across the world) @voicesofpoets Salvador Dalí’s Down the Rabbit Hole © Orla Grant-Donoghue Act 1: Faint Hues  Blue tint of falling tears soak the canvas in muddy blue. Burnt orange of earth mixes with white, Unsure of what to become. Like shadows made by an unseen hand, Faint pencil lines reveal form where all is in the eye of beholders. Act 2: The Curtain Draws  Earth flies past, A rabbit leaps, a little girl falls down and down to a place where there’s no light. Her breath slows, She casts her dreams into the wide open, blinks and stares, waiting to be lit by magic. Act 3: A New World Nothing makes sense in this dream-like world Where rabbits talk and mushrooms beckon. The little girl skips along, Her breath slows, Her heartbeat quickens. She grows, She shrinks. She Takes It All In. ................. #Repost @brainpicker (@get_repost) ・・・ Today on Brain Pickings, Salvador Dalí’s rare 1969 illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, resurrected: brainpickings.org #salvadordali #aliceinwonderland #downtherabbithole #voicesofpoets #globalvoicesunite #painting #poetrycommunity #poetsofig #irishpoet #dublinpoet #madewords
#Repost @voicesofpoets (@get_repost) ・・・ I'm so honoured to be included as an Irish voice in Voices, an anthology of 27 poets from all over the world. Thank you to the amazing @voicesofpoets editors. . . It is now available at Amazon.com and Amazon Europe. There is a link to Amazon in the bio @voicesofpoets . . I have ordered some copies so will share more later in the week once they arrive. Hoping to record a couple of the poems soon. #voicesofpoets #globalvoicesunite #bymepoetrylove #untwinemeireland #irishpoet #poetrycommunity anthology #poems #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #worldpoets
Love heals the fault lines on life's jagged timeline. #micropoem & #sunsetphoto @orlawrites #malahide #lovedublin #lovequotes #lovepoem #instapoem #poetrycommunity #poemoftheday #poemofig #irishpoet #dublinpoet #orlawrites #micropoetry #sky_sea_sunset #summertime #madewords #bymepoetryeurope #untwinemeireland #globalvoicesunite #voicesofpoets
At the edge of forgetting  I fall into our memories. #micropoem #video @orlawrites #curracloebeach #wexford #shoreline #tide #beachwalk #waves #soundofwaves #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #irishpoet #dublinwriter #orlawrites #artsy #holidaymood #memory #bepresent #namaste #naturesounds #bymepoetryeurope #madewords #globalvoicesunite #voicesofpoets #poetryireland #loveireland #lovepoem
In a split second, stardust in my eyes, I lose you to summer's end. #micropoem @orlawrites #photo of me on Curracloe Beach, Wexford. Poem from The Frayed Heart ( Fiery Arrow Press) 2018. #lovequotes #lovepoem #sunnysoutheast #wexford #curracloebeach #stardust #endings #summerdays #holidays #bymepoetryeurope #untwinemeireland #madewords #voicesofpoets #poetsofig #poetrycommunity #dublinwriter #dublinpoet #haikuart #instahaikugram #instahaiku #artpoem #poemart #orlawrites #bymepoetrylove
Midsummer @orlawrites If I close my eyes I can see the view from the dunes You’re sitting beside me There’s no space between us We look in the same direction towards the setting sun You are on edge uncomfortable holding our silence I am unsure beyond that night With the tilt of the earth the sun lights the night You spin an altered reality And I fall. Happy Summer Solstice. This is the poem I read at Hanna's bookshop in Bark Coffee on Thursday 20 June. It was recorded at Porchlight Studios, Dublin and produced by Niall Woods. #summersolstice #midsummer #memory #lovepoetry #fallinginlove #untwinemeireland #untwineme #bymepoetryeurope #bymepoetrylove #voicesofpoets #globalvoicesunite #madewords #lovepoem #poem #poemofinstagram #poetrycommunity #dublinpoet #irishpoet #irishwriter
Happy Bloomsday 2019. #haiku by @orlawrites 3. Proteus Soul shells crushed money letter? yes closed eyes, sea god Manannán, sláinte. 3. Proteus Dog’s body heavy surrounding tide, drowning. Past. A companion. Mine. 7. Aeolus Plums pierced, dribbled spit search spires skywards - rambunctious  women stone pillar. 8. The Lestrygonias Stone, worry, walk, long counting heartbeats, searching. Where? Soap in pocket. Safe. . . 9. Scylla and Chardydis No undoing death asleep. So be it. Mocking true wishes later. These are some of the experimental haiku I wrote depicting scenes from Ulysses, which were included in an installation by Nickie Hayden in an exhibition at The Olivier Cornet gallery in 2018. I wrote some new haiku, which are part of this wonderful 2019 exhibition curated by Nickie Hayden in the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. The recordings were produced by Niall Woods at Porchlight Studios in Dublin www.porchlightstudios.ie Thank you Niall. The full recording is on soundcloud at www.soundcloud.com/orlawrites #bloomsday #bloomsday2019 #ulysses #jamesjoycecentredublin #jamesjoyce #instahaiku #instahaikugram #dunlaoghaire #sandycove #lovedublin #irishpoet #irishwriter #OlivierCornetGallery #porchlightstudiosdublin #poetrycommunity #haikuart #spokenword #untwinemeireland #bymepoetryeurope #voicesofpoets #globalvoicesunite #micropoetry #micropoems #voiceoverartist #spokenword
I'd climb a million steps to drink one cup of tea with you again. @orlawrites reposting this piece. Feelings may fade but they don't always disappear. #tealover #teadrinker #cuppa #tea #teaanyone #lostinthought #chinacup #wallpaper #moment #poem #micropoem #lovepoem #poetrycommunity #poetryisnotdead #poetsofinstagram #irishpoet #dublinwriter #afternoontea
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