Frankie Quinn with a poem from his book Open Gates.

Treadmill

Birds visit in the mornings
Picking up scraps discarded
By prison monks.
♞♜♝
Each in a cave meditating.
Women visit in the evenings
Picking up scraps regurgitated
♞♜♝
By bull dogs enemies’ a creation of
Arrogances dangle on batons
Wielded on the back of a generation
Who didn’t turn and run.

⏩ Frankie Quinn is a former republican prisoner who is now a community activist. He is the author of Open Gates, a book of poetry.   

Treadmill

Frankie Quinn with a poem from his book Open Gates.

Treadmill

Birds visit in the mornings
Picking up scraps discarded
By prison monks.
♞♜♝
Each in a cave meditating.
Women visit in the evenings
Picking up scraps regurgitated
♞♜♝
By bull dogs enemies’ a creation of
Arrogances dangle on batons
Wielded on the back of a generation
Who didn’t turn and run.

⏩ Frankie Quinn is a former republican prisoner who is now a community activist. He is the author of Open Gates, a book of poetry.   

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