'A Belfast Trilogy' A BELFAST TRILOGY “Spirit of the Lagan” (Written as part of  Collaborative Exhibition Engine Room Gallery, Belfast November 2014/2015) BELFAST ROSE Down behind the City Hall Belfast Rose slides into the snow Snowflakes fall on her dark hair Somewhere, bells ring on the midnight air See the crimson petals

'Stepping Stone' Stepping Stone (Derry/Londonderry Peace Bridge) by Sam Burnside Poem about the Derry/Londonderry Peace Bridge and the troubles in Northern Ireland.

'Stretcher Bearer' Stretcher Bearer  (an extract) appeared on BBC Radio Foyle, October 2014. Stretcher Bearer appeared in a The Narrow Fellow, Journal of Poetry, spring, USA. 2015 ‘Stretcher Bearer’s Story’is collected in Forms of Freedom. Poems, by Sam Burnside, Lapwing Poetry, Belfast, 2015. (Stretcher Bearer was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, USA, 2016) ________________________________ Moths have