Selected Strands and Streets and Steeples

Saints and Steeples

Shout out for the steeples named after the saints

who entice and survive despite the constraints.

A canon that includes: St. Patrick’s, St. Catherine’s too

St. Ann’s and St. James’s, quite close to the zoo.

– Marie Studer

S is for shooting for St Stephen’s Green

Where suffragettes stepped up in 1916

– Catherine Ann Cullen

                                              

On Sandymount Strand with his hands in his pockets,

Stephen sinks slowly in newly-soaked sockets.

Should he skirt Strasburg Terrace, or stop by Aunt Sara,

Or stroll to infinity on Dublin’s Sahara?

– Catherine Ann Cullen

Opposite Shaw’s small Synge Street house with its bright blue door

there’s street art by the artist Fink,

His blue mural of Shaw, author of many plays

is a study of him as he thinks.

– Mary B Shannon

Here in the city of Sinead

Here on the sacred sidewalk of Ireland

I know where I am smoking cigarettes

In the infinite Dublin the magnet for poets

– Arjuna Cecchetti

Suesey Street, on the strip, one of Leeson St’s glories

Where socialites sipped & swapped scandalous stories 

– Catherine Ann Cullen