Offaly poet's tribute to the late Shane MacGowan

A tribute in verse has been written by a well known Offaly poet as a mark of respect to the late, great Shane MacGowan.

Daingean native and published poet and carpenter, Jim Brennan heard the news while in his workshop in his adopted West Cork last week.

He penned 'Last Day in November' in memory of Shane.

LAST DAY IN NOVEMBER

For Shane MacGowan

You don’t need to walk in the rain to hide the tears

Try walking in the cold wind in West Cork

Dunmanus Bay is looking as beautiful as usual

The wind is singing in the shed

Its singing of you

It tries to take a hand

To hold a small silence for us all

Because through it all

You always had your eye on the far horizon

And if you ever did stumble on the road

Or came out of the slumber of sleep

Your eye on a small hurling ball

That in flying wet and fast

Up into the blue of the air

We will always in an old slow song

And before long

Soar with you over New York

Soho

And I know somewhere near the far bank of the Shannon

Majestic in the early morning

Jim Brennan,

West Cork