Dreams Came True
For the past few months, I have been working on a new opportunity, researching and exploring the desire to start an Irish newspaper, focused on the state of Ohio and its surrounding areas and highlighting the pictures, news, people and events of Irish America as it affects Ohioans. Good friend and insightful DJ […]
What part of QUIET didn’t you understand?
Everyone needs to feel secure……
Couldn’t help it Ma, that first step is a killer..
Now what do I do???
It’s in there somewhere, I just know it!!
I really need to get going, but I just can’t seem to get motivated…..
Man…I’m getting so fat I can hardly scratch my own butt!!!
These morning […]
Gifted Tantalizing Tastes
by John O’Brien, Jr.
I see so much future, in tomorrow.
New doors are opening and I am amazed by their breadth
How they fit, just me.
As if SOMEONE designed it just for me,
and I am speechless
(ok, not a good thing for a writer to be but…)
The multi colored panorama
the endless possibilities that shimmer and tempt
and […]
Broken Navigation
by John O’Brien, Jr.
We are not close, you and I
Tho’ in reality, nothing could make us closer.
Different views, different ways,
different steel forged in wildly different trials:
Immigrant, stowaway, self-made, closed door
1st generation, spilt-reality, decimated, alone in a crowded hall.
Yet we each must make our own path
and have, and do,
separate, and bewildering to the other.
Finally, I […]
I am guesting blogger on LFB (Loaded for Blog) this week - hope you enjoy it….
This is called:
Jesus Took the Wheel, One More Time
This one was different. This athlete, a superstar, had turned the self-aggrandizing world of sports figures lost in their own posses, mansions and decadent lifestyles upside down, inside out, and so […]
Had another fun weekend, at the Indy Irish Fest, in Indianapolis, IN. Took off after work friday and drove 6 hours to my sisters house. Got in around 11:30, had a chat with 2 of my nephews, so fun to talk with them about what is going on with them - God they […]
I Had Freedom
by John O’Brien, Jr.
I ran so hard
Iron in my eyes.
Bursting thru
I had freedom, for just a second
then,
then
the world went black.
Later, as I came to
I wondered where I had been and what had I missed
what had happened.
And I will never know.
Fog, blurry thoughts, even though they are my own
I see, I feel, sort of, […]
You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, then stop to enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital. It’s a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and you’re eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder but…. On the way back to your plane, you discover […]
Essence of My Dreams
by John O’Brien, Jr.
Deep within my soul
I hear you calling.
I reach, and only can grasp air.
Novellas in your eyes
forged through hardships
tempered in the ecstasies of life -
balancing, always balancing.
An image so concrete, I can smell your skin,
taste your lips, feel your touch
and in those drowsy hours between the dawn,
and the coming of […]
What a weekend! I spent Saturday and Sunday in Pittsburgh PA., at the 16th Annual Pittsburgh Irish Festival. Invited to present on my book, Festival Legends: Songs & Stories, I also got to see some amazing performances.
6:00 a.m. start came way too early, especially for a Saturday, but my view was just awesome: on the […]