Poetry A-Z

What follows is a comprehensive list of all the poems ever written by Francis Reilly. They begin in chronological order with the poems listed alphabetically beneath specific time-frames. Click on the respective titles to read the poem on the Peace in a Crack Den blog.

The time-frames within which the poems were written may seem a little oddly divided - this is simply because of the difficulty posed by attempting to pinpoint exactly when the earlier poems were written as the only information available, apart from pure memory, were the dates specified on each of the now defunct Bebo pages.

The list is updated every time Reilly uploads a new poem. The last poem published on this blog was written in March 2018; it was poem number 622.


September 2006 - March 2007

Alone
Charlie's Last Day
Dreams and Chances (with a Tinge of Relief)
Emerald
Friends?
Heartbreak
Hope is Lost
I am
I Miss You
Isolation
Jimmy 'Jinky' Johnstone
My First Celtic Game
My Everything
Permanent Anger
Storm, Shadows...and a Little Something Special
The Battle of the Plain Glass
The Bohemian
The Chronicles of an Ordinary Man
The Tricycle, the Bee and my Knee
The Shot
The Weakness Returns
Two in the Morning
We're Having a Great Time
Where am I Gone?
Why? 

March - May 2007

...
A Delusional Martyr
A Nice Distraction
A Night Out
Back Off
Everything Vanishes
Happiness
Hidden Behind Better People
Inspiration
Judgment Day
Let Down
Life's Ending
Love Ignored
Mistakes and Regrets
Over Pressure
Passion (Gone)
Sorry
Sweet River
Thanks
The Heart
The Puppeteer
The Realm of Fantasy
The Whale
Time
When?

May - July 2007

A Call for the Old Days
A Shield From Evil
Big Man's Grave
Blood and Deceit
Brown Eyes
Death on Everest
From a Glimmer to Nothing Again
Guilt
Heart of Fire
Hits
Learn to Let Go
Penny
Personality Puzzle
Silence
Taking the Chance
Teardrop
The Blackhole
The End of an Era
The Fifth Province
The Final Judgement
The Knife
The Price of Friendship
The Void
The Walk Of Shame
War

July - September 2007

A Choice
Bright Nights
By The River On Pebble Island
Death of a Dream
Demons Inside
Fleeting Meeting
Gone
Goodbye (Version 2)
I Had a Choice
Inner Strength
Lost Opportunity
Luck of the Draw
Old Feelings Change
Old Friends and Strangers
Something to Prove
The Dream
The Gladiator
The Jinx
The Moment of Truth
The Stranger
The Tale of Death and the Green Eyed Man
Things Inside
Tomorrow
Train of Inspiration
Turn of the Tide

September - October 2007

A Bolt from the Blue
A Losing Battle
Changing
Combination
Contrasting Outlooks
Darkness is Coming
Divided
Everything Has a Price
Flawed Genius
Get Up
Goodbye (Version 1)
Innocent Blood And War
Intimidation
Life
Love
My Fight
Same Old, Same Old
Signals
Still Haven't Learned
The Ball
Troubles of Four People
Unanswerable Questions
Waiting and Gathering
Who Really Cares?
Why is it?

October - November 2007

Again
Diamonds And Gems
Doubts And Worries
Insane
Is it True?
Lament
Let Me Be Unfair
Moving On
My Wish
No Name
Now is the Time
Proud
Take it Away
The Beginning
The Day I Die
The Magic of Music in Motion
The Price of Happiness
The Search
Tired
Unbreakable Bond
Unforgivable
Unspoken Words
Ups and Downs
Vampire
Win...

November - December 2007

A Heartbreaking Choice?
A Horrible Night
Caught in the Middle
Cruelty Of Men
Damn That Wonderful Elf
Death in His Cloak
Don't Be Afraid
Don't Worry
Emancipation
Finally
From a Dance to Romance
Growing Feelings
I Love You More
Liberation
Moonlight
Screaming Bullets
The Breakdown
The First Star
The Kiss
The Last Hurrah Before The Final Fall
The Last Poem
The Most Glorious Sight
There and Back Again
These Things Happen
Two Faced

December 2007 - January 2008

And Still I Can't Cry
Betrayal
Borders
Darkness is Coming Again
Did You Mean it?
Fridays
Galway Girl
Heartbeat
Hold Her Close...
No Sympathy
Nothing Matters Anymore
Oblivion
Parting
Procrastination
Questions Of Life
So Much for the End
Story of Life
The Friend's Role
The Galaxy's Light
Those Three Words
Utter Confusion
Waiting
Why Can't I?
Years Gone By/Youthful Innocence
Young Love Slain

January - March 2008 

A Fair Warning
A Message to Life
Beyond the Surface
Blood Lust and Obsession
Conclusive Storm
Confusion
Empty Tears
Fate's Call
Fear
Five Years
Forgiveness
Green Eyes and Butterflies
Love's Sudden End
Miscarriage of Justice
No Longer Blinded
Only A Matter Of Time
Six Feet Under
Stay Away, You Whore
Stop the Torture
Surface Breaking Doubts
The Caller With No Voice
The Inevitable
The Scream
The Wanderer's Wildflower
The White Man Betrays the Indian

March - April 2008

A Bad Sensation
At Last
Desperation
Fading Smile
Goodbye to Everyone
I've Finally Cried
Keep the Faith
Knives and Lies
Looking Beyond the Face
Looking for Guidance
No Answers
Realising the Obvious
Ruining the Master Plan
Show Feeling, Please Talk
Social Anarchy
Sucked Into My Own Fear
That Night
The Control Seeking Blight
The Flashing Lights
The Lone Soldier
The Long Walk Home
Uncertain Days
Uncontrollable Thoughts
Where Do I Go From Here?
You Didn't Shake My Hand

April - May 2008

(screaming)
A Cat's Meow
Anger
Blind
Eternal Cry
Four-Leafed Clover
I Fight
I'll Try Again
Love is Futile
Men and Women
Makes No Sense
Mission
My Fiction is the Truth
One of Them
Should I?
So be it
Someone’s Soul is Sinister
The Cycle
Tatters
The Tortured Bassist
Waiting for Your Eyes to Open
Walk Away
Want-To-Be Bride
You've Gone Insane
You Were Left Hanging

May - June 2008

A Gaping Hole
All You Can Remember
Are We Going To Stand Up?
A Sudden Movement
Becoming Darker
Ceasing Capturing
Feeling Again
Frank
Go Forth
Ideas
I Stand Still
It Never Existed
Lust and Lies
Maastricht
Notches
Old Friendships Die
Our Last Chat
Ridiculously Dramatic
Seeing The Body
They Will Come
Unlocked
Wait For The Change
Where Will It End?
You Don't Have Anyone But Yourself
Youth of Today

June - July 2008

Alone At Last
Anything and Everything
A Rant
Bleeding Horse
Candle
Delicate Balance
Dying Man
Fear Of Loss
Finding The Right Steps
Find it in Your Heart
Hiding
How Can We Do This?
Insignificance
Jamie
Life and Dreams Intertwined
Lying Down
No One Notices
Poker Faces
Pursuit
Right Or Wrong
Stolen
Stories
The City Centre
This Is All I Have
What Have We Become?

July - September 2008

Act
And It's Done
Biting The Bullet
Cease
Constant Reminders
Cracking Eyes
Déjà Vu
How?
I Deserve This
I Was Born
Kiss and Tell
Left Alone
Overruled/Sat Alone
Shooting Star
Tears of Dying Ember
The Blackout
The Train
Thoughts
Thrown Away
Two Painfully Contrasting Halves That Make a Painfully Coherent Whole
What Defines an 'Emo'?
What Does It Prove?
Why Aren’t You Mine?
Widening
You'll Never Kick A Ball Again

September - December 2008

As A Tower
A Million Pieces
Cliff of Moments
Dawn 'til Dawn
Don't Cry
I ‘Get On’ To Get On
I Just Know
I'm
It Matters
I Took Him To The Grave
I've Come
Jar
Jazz Club
Let’s Wage Peace
Looking Eyes
Lost Time
(Only in My) Dreams
Perceptions
The Past Is The Present
The Robin
The Times
The Writer
This Is It Now
Sleep Walker
Sometimes and Other Times

December 2008 - March 2009

And Again/I Say No
A Over My E
Believe/The Light
Days and Months
Double Consciousness
Dublin Pleasures
Fix
Heart of the Sun
I Hope This Never Ends
I Try, Yet Only Succeed
Look
Loveable Rogue
One Hundred and Ninety Words
Regardless of Everything
Rule The World
Sit
Six Years On
So
The Mocking
Throwing Stones
Warning
Washing Away
What Do You See?
Which Way?
You Didn't Hurt Me

March - May 2009

Air
Astray
Black Hand
Broken Bricks and Broken Glass
Entrapment
Even Though
Fools
He, She, the Runner
He Wrote in Vain
I Hate Every Single One of You
Irony of the Wait
Jump
'Kiss and Make Up'
No-Man's Land
Peace in a Crack Den
Red Tide
Swinging
The Game
The Machine
Then and Then, Now and Now
Unsuspecting Lips
Veins/Dog’s Eyes
Who Are My Friends?
Zimmer

May - June 2009

Asterisk in the Appendix
Blow
Death of the Church
Do They Demean?
Ensnarer
Everytime I Close My Eyes
Feels Safer
For One Year
Here
I See…
Like a Piano
Living in Denial
New Generation
No Sound
Nothing
Room of Tufts
Silence After the Gunshot
Solitude
Tell
Twinge (I Do Not Want)
Two Candles
Uncertain
Untitled Document
You Don't, But You Will

June - October 2009

Break
Butterflies
Dream Screen
Glow
Got to Be
I Need to Thank You
Locked
Maintenance
No Finale
Old Romantic
SBS
Shades
Sky Stands Still
Spent Hours
The Coast
The Race
There We Go
They Don’t Know
Three Minutes Fifty Four Seconds
To a Destination
Wave of Changes
When Is Too Many?
Window

October 2009 - January 2010

A Broken Promise (To Myself)
And so it was
Dither
Ducks
Ice
Let's Run
Lights through the Leaves
Memory
Politics of the Dancefloor
Queen
Red
Rising Smoke
Singledom
Snowed In Salt
Sort of
Spark
Spent Dream
Spin the Bottle
Stands
Taken Path
The Crocodile
Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump
Today and Tomorrow Make Seven Between
Unwanted Monuments
Utopia

January - May 2010

A Dreamer's Dream
Bray Stones
Burst Banks
Chamber
Chaos to Silence
Choiceless Ceremony
Colourless Eyes
Crystal
Dead Ends of Our Time
Dull Evening in February
Friend's Reality
Fuelled Fire
Glimmering Cat’s Eye
Golden
Hope/My Friends
Lover of a Friend
Marooned
My Stage
Needle
One Key
Raining
Rankle
Rat Race
Red Moon
Remember the Lost Boy
Shaken Hero
Shards of a Puzzle
Skeletal
Sober Story
Suppression
To Spite the Solace
The Cast-Offs
Three Stars
Turquoise
Unheard
Unhooked
Valentine
Violin
Yellow Door 

May - October 2010

All I Want
All the Old Friends
Barrier
Bedroom Door
Cliffs
Dancing Dare
Fantasies
God
Hold
Induced
In Hiding
Invincible
James Blunt Gold
Jonsi
Measure
Miracle
No More Corners
Reading 'If'
Resentment
Resignation
Serenade
Sleeping Peacefully
The Boy
The Stimulant 
The Truth 
The Universe
Tranquil Chagrin
So Long
Valley
Weep
Your Purgatory

November 2010 - December 2011

Apocalypnic
Armed to the Tip
Attempt
Birthday
Beguile
Broken Hearted Pop Song
Bush
Caged
Chasing Histories
Clongriffin
Crack Den Revisited
Dancing Lantern
Distortionist
Five Rhymes
Flies
Four Days
Hypocrisy
His Wall
Let It Be
Lured
Moon Shadows
My Valentine
Pauses
Presume The Posts
Projections
Rouse
Silhouettes
Static
Too Short
The End of The End
Threads
Those Olive Eyes
Tomangos
Trust
Truth
Wasteland Wanderer
Watched
Weathered Train
What Was Promised
When It Floods
Working Dreams

January 2012 - July 2012

Courtesy
In Transit
Jelly & Ice-Cream (For Now)
Onassis
Scorn
Sojourn
The Resplendent
The Shop
Tracks

November 2017
Walls

March 2018
JOFRAN TARMOWIFE