Live Encounters Poetry & Writing 16th Anniversary Volume Two
November- December 2025
Take This, poems by Roisín Browne.
Take This
The tram door sweeps open to a bare-blue ice morning
I take a few steps onto sturdy Seán Heuston bridge
look out at the Liffey.
Eanáir sun mirrors limestone walls, emerald moss,
white gulls, into the water below.
A stainless stillness glistens, even the air holds quiet.
I need to take some beauty in before I go.
The sky whispers,
Take This.
Eanáir is the Irish word for the month of January.
A Time
You know, there’s going to be a time when we don’t exist on the earth. When our shapes won’t puncture it, when our heat will be long gone cold, when our breath will not make a window canvas for extinct digits.
The memory of us will melt away like the memory holders themselves. So, now and then, when your spirit jolts, your soul clenches, your colours rage, remember, there’s going to be a time, when we don’t exist.
© Roisín Browne
Roisín Browne lives in Rush, Co Dublin and has been published in A New Ulster, The Galway Review, The Stony Thursday Book, Live Encounters Poetry & Writing, Poem Alone, New Word Order, Flare, Black Nore Review, Ragaire Literary Magazine and Mnemotope. She was commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue Awards in 2018, shortlisted in The 7th Annual Bangor Poetry Competition in 2019 and was highly commended in the Seán Dunne Inaugural Poetry Award 2024.
Super hot poetry, Roisin. Keep up the great work.