Just a bit nervous about visiting St. Joseph's School in Navan as I probably know most of the students from my Creative Writing class across the road in the library.   That's happening on Wednesday morning at 9.30.
Then on Thursday evening it's off to Moynalvey to launch a book for the children of the National school there .  Saturday is the second last day of creative until September when we will be launching our new collection of children's poems 'Golden Rhymes'.  The title here is a little pretentious as there is some work to be done on most of the poems but they have the summer to do it and everything should be ready for September.
Here is a sneak preview with a poem from Golden Rhymes.  I

It  is by 13 year old Sarah McShane from Navan

Sarah attends St. Michaels Loreto.

Landscape

It is all around

But nobody notices

Man-kind has ruined

The landscape around

Changing our views

Time was, where you now sit

A land beyond dreams

With hill and mountains

Surrounding a valley

Where a waterfall once rippled

And a rainbow once shone

Brighter that any sun

Birds of the rarest kind flew

Unusual creatures once stood

No human dared touch

Nor dared to ruin the sight

That is now ruined by man-kind

Only a hundred years later

What you see now ruined the land

If you see another landscape, so beautiful

Please remember what I told you

In a million years it will not exist

Be cause of our descendents.