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Deliverance

 

I remember a time we shared

a Valentines Day bubble bath

of expectation and discovery

not distant from bloody

yet separated by more than

a thousands minutes of ocean

and enough terra firma

to allow for a lifetime’s walking

placebo-less within a comforting

inner circle’s spin contained by

our meandering contentment
 

She aspired to rescue me

from the haunting of a massacre

that had left me bleeding

save for an unconvincing thread

holding me to a life that had left

me beaten from a truth without pity

but with my yearning unscathed

for one virgin sweet whiff

of that illusory scented rose

that had remained close to my senses

despite the theft of its fragile petals
 

I could feel her nervousness,

from the vibrato in her voice

as her resonance travelled

circumspectly on hesitant breeze,

though the water seemed inviting

she had no comprehension of its depth

so in acappella I sang for her

libretto taken from my sabbatical

and the first sensitive movement

felt from our emancipating

and enchanting coalescent dance
 

I had wasted countless hours

trying to dissipate the bleakness

of an insensitive obscurity

learning our now song for love

before rendering it with Gaelic grace

and just as her voice became veiled

by the gentle persuasion of mine

I felt her tears as they precipitated

over my regenerating cadaver

as it began to emerge from beneath

a wave to her melodious deliverance


      

 

      
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Warwick Poet Anthony James Leahy

 

 

 

Poetry

Anthony Leahy

 

Paintings

Anthony Leahy

 

Art & Photography

Anthony Leahy

 

A Major Arcana

Kathleen Forrest

 

The Drumroom

Anthony Leahy

Rediscovering the Gelatine Factory

Introduction

 

The Gelatine Factory

A comprehensive account 1899

from Round About Warwick

 

George Nelson

 

 

Nelson's Emscote Mills 2009

 

 

T B Dale

 

Charles Nelson's

Cement Works at Stockton

 

The Nelson Brothers

 

William Nelson

 

George H Nelson

 

Sir E Montague Nelson

E M (Sam) Nelson

 

A Visit to

Messrs. G. Nelson, Dale & Co. 1880

 

 

Nelson Works

Tomoana New Zealand

 

Guy Montague Nelson

Nelson Village

Charles St, Warwick

 

The Lawn at Emscote

 

Nelson's Lozenges

 packaging & adds

Nelson's Club

Isinglass Wars

Swinborne v Nelson

 

Nelson's 1950's

Warwick Advertiser account 1953

 

 

Descendants of George Nelson

 

George Wyatt A city trade jubilee

 

 

Nelson's Heritage Walk

 

Gelatine and its uses

 

Davis Gelatine

         

Sir E Montague Nelson's Scrapbook Circa 1882

Nelson Gym

Nelson Patents

 

The Nelsons of Warwick Timeline

 

SMITH V NELSON 1904-5

 

 

Walter Nelson

 

   

 

Home Comforts

 

Mary Hooper

 

 

Mary Hooper Letters

 Mary Hooper Book Collection

 

Nelson's Home Comforts

Mary Hooper

 

Wives and Housewives

Mary Hooper

 

Little Dinners

Mary Hooper

 

Cookery for Invalids

Mary Hooper

 

Every Day Meals

Mary Hooper

 

Hints on Cookery

Mary Hooper

Good Plain Cookery

Mary Hooper

 

Handbook for the

Breakfast Table

Mary Hooper

 

Weekly Telegraph

Cookery Book

Mary Hooper

Our Dog Prin

Mary Hooper

Ways & Tricks of Animals

Mary Hooper

 

Lily's Letters from the Farm

Mary Hooper

Charles Wentworth Wass

Round About Warwick

Mary Hooper Books Wanted

Fleur De Lys

The Pie Factory at Emscote

Nelson Story

In Brief

 

Nelsons Story

DVD

Nelson's Home Comforts

From Beginning To End

 

Cookery & Home Comforts

Mrs Wigley

Rock's Royal Cabinet

Leamington & Warwick 1880

 

 

 

 

 

 A Walk in Warwick

 

 

 

 

James Francis Leahy

 

 

 

 

                     

PAT Testing Warwick and Leamington Spa - Amber Leahy Graphic Design

 

Sky Blue Heaven

 

Book Wanted Handbook For The Breakfast Table

Book Wanted Wives and Housewives A Story For The Times

 

 

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