A Matter of Conscience

 


A Matter Of Conscience



Blind Milton had no sight

but had he not ears to hear?

Deaf Beethoven knew no sound

but had he not eyes to see?


We know lies whenever spread,

know injustice whenever imposed.

We know the truth.

It’s where we have to live.



Anthony Wade


Anthony Wade, a Forward Prize nominee, a graduate lawyer with a Masters Degree, an Irish Diaspora citizen educated in England who also worked in The Netherlands has published poems in Ariel Chart, BorderlessBoyne BerriesCauseway CabhsairDrawn To The LightDreichGalway ReviewGreen InkLakeview International Literary Journal, Madrid ReviewPaddler Press, PulsarSetu Bilingual Journal, Strands Lit Sphere, Tiny Seed, and The Dawntreader.  He now lives by the sea in East Cork not ten miles from where he spent childhood summers and is an active member of the Midleton Writers’ Group, and edited its recently published 50th anniversary anthology, ‘Midleton Golden Miscellany’.


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