Poems by Richard Finneran

        These poems are the original work of Richard Finneran. The poems are collected here in no particular order, except that the most recently posted ones appear first.

» O Love Not Now
» Poem to the winds
» "But People Will Talk"
» The Beggar's Lament
» Chamomile
» A Matter of Course
» Proof
» Drying the Dishes
» The Conscientious Homeowner
» Prayer to a Laughing God
» Predilection
» Death is a Blooming
» A translation of Catullus LXXV
» End of the Line
» Some advice for future writers
» A Metaphor
» Last Sip
» The Wait
» Despite her leaving just last week
» Deadly
» What Grace
» Mysteries of Faith
» Change in Plans
» A translation of Aeneid II.195-198
» William Johnson leaves the solar system, November 2003
» A Seeming Contradiction
» ‘TSUNAMI CLAIMS 150,000’
» The Expiring Night
» We Subtle Mnemonicians
» Advice to April on Diction
» Among the clouds
» She said the Cold was Bitter
» For Jeremy
» On introductions
» What I Missed
» A translation of Catullus II
» To a lover on a first anniversary
» To Poets who Aspire to Criticism
» Poor Old Shoe
» Some things you brought to mind
» Pink Carpet
» The Pottery Artist
» Hairbrush
» The Patient
» The Edges Fray
» When I Am Old
» Every Monday
» Attraction
» Circular Reasoning
» No Action But Reaction
» The Execution of Meursault
» Stringing a guitar
» Casualty of Forward Motion
» An apology
» All Hearts Are Foolish
» The True Academic
» Ignorant Youth
» A Poor Translation of Catullus LXXII, Made So by the Inadequacies of the English Language and Meter
» My Voice, My Vice
» Superius Intendere
» My Picture of You
» The Poet
» On the Order of Things
» Through Waiting
» Cher Monsieur Descartes
» You're Wrong
» A Happy Tear
» Clean Pages
» Breaking the Silence
» The Wind and the Waves
» Lying Still
» Over My Grave
» To the Ladies of the Louvre, 28 May 2001
» Lights Shining on the Bay

All poems copyright © Richard Finneran .