A Kind of Blue
by Maurice Devitt
There were carefree days
when you felt immune
to the squibs of fear,
smudges of despair,
but that evening
you found yourself
jostling
with a small cloud,
trying to burn it off,
until a vagrant squall
muscled into the space,
scattered amber thoughts
of jam and arcades
and left,
the saloon doors
flapping in its wake.
There were carefree days
when you felt immune
to the squibs of fear,
smudges of despair,
but that evening
you found yourself
jostling
with a small cloud,
trying to burn it off,
until a vagrant squall
muscled into the space,
scattered amber thoughts
of jam and arcades
and left,
the saloon doors
flapping in its wake.
Maurice Devitt
After a career in business he completed the Poetry Studies MA at Mater Dei in Dublin, focusing on the poetry of James Wright, Charles Bernstein and others. He was recently short-listed for The Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition, the Over the Edge New Writer Award, Westport Arts Poetry and The Doire Press International Chapbook Competition. During 2012 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was runner-up in the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition and short-listed for the Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Collection Competition. Over the past two years he has had poems accepted by various journals in Ireland, England, Scotland, the US, Australia and Mexico. He is a founder member of the Hibernian Writers’ Group and is looking to publish a first collection.