Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020 HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem ‘Mother’, and won the winter competition for his poem ‘The Silence’. Gordon was awarded a Poetry Town Bursary by Poetry Ireland.
His father speaks to him in a dream
He said his father appeared to him in a dream
promised him that all would turn out right in the end
he said it doesn’t make sense now
but all things will fall into place
if there’s nothing you can do
do nothing
if something needs doing
do it
his words were something
out of one of his western movies
the private fantasy world he inhabited
it all made sense there
but here in the real world
he was the odd one out
What if
What if the birds
stopped sounding the
wakeup call
what if the leaves in the trees
stopped moving on the wind
breaking the silence
Would we still rise
Would we still
gaze out on the land
and wonder at its beauty
The Galway Review 