Dom Conlon, poet & author

Author: Dom

  • To the woman – a Mother’s Day poem

    To the woman who is the mother of the man I am To the woman who is the mother of the boy I was To the woman who is the mother of the son we are raising To the woman who is the mother of the father who raised me To the woman who is…

  • Let’s Meet!

    Let’s meet! Let’s meet to eat! Let’s meet upon our feet to eat! Let’s meet and greet upon our feet to eat! Let’s meet and greet upon our feet then take a seat to eat! Let’s meet and greet upon our feet then take a seat to eat some meat! I’m beat! Let’s not meet.…

  • Nicarusmas—a Christmas Story

    a story from The Edge of Christmas “What if Father Christmas flew too close to the sun?” ut just supposing you wanted to, how would you do it?” The taller, greying man gripped his shovel as the exposed island wind cut into his thick robes. He gazed up into the sky where the clouds permanently…

  • Don’t Let Him Catch You Awake – A Badtime Christmas Special!

    A Badtime Story ’Twas Greedmas Eve and outside the snow fell gently upon the bodies of the visitors. In their bedroom, Jacob and Jacob lay hand in hand, fingernails digging into each other’s soft flesh. ‘You must go straight to sleep tonight, my darlings,’ Nurse Mariam told the twins as she drew the top sheet…

  • Red Bike

    Where is my red bike? The rag bone man took it to sell for his supper. Who bought its shine? The rain took that to polish its tears . Who bought its bell? Time took that to mark out its years. Who bought its tyres? The wind took those to carry its clouds. Who bought…

  • A Trick of the Night – a Badtime Halloween Special!

    A Badtime Story On the traditional night of mocking the dead, Jacob and Jacob nudged one another as they sat in their pew listening to the Also Sisters chant of their hunger. Above the heads of the children the cowls of the roof glared down, stained stonework striped with darkness. The great roof held each…

  • Saving the Ice Cream Lady!

    I remember when the ice cream lady driving her ice cream van turned the corner to sell ice cream on our street ding ding ding ding di— SCREECH the ice cream lady lost control of her ice cream van we all ran out I shouted ‘ice cream’ and so did she so we tried to…

  • The Well Below

    Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water. ‘Walk quicker,’ said Jack. ‘You’re always so slow. You almost got us killed back there.’ He gobbled the breath which came ragged into his throat and swung the bucket he was carrying from one hand to the other. ‘Just move.’ His sister,…

  • The Sun and the Hare

    When Sun was young he rode the Earth on Hare’s back hot as thoughtlessness he burned and Hare bucked and leapt crossing mountains and myths ice ages and oceans until, jealous of a volcano, Sun eased into the foothills, dismounted and was about to drink the land dry when he noticed Hare’s brown fur glowing…

  • Sport Stars

    There’s been some BIG SPACE NEWS! Fans of Astro Poetica will already know how much I love BIG SPACE NEWS but this is extraordinary. Two neutron stars have been observed colliding and sending out gravitational waves. This will lead to a whole new way to see the Universe! A neutron star is a very small…