Category: Poetry

Eithne Ni Bhraonain

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aka Enya. She is Máire Ní Bhraonáin’s little sister. Together, with their other siblings, they are one of my Fave Celtic Music Makers. P.S. Arwen/Awen is : Awen is a Welsh, Cornish and Breton word for “(poetic) inspiration”. … Emma Restall Orr, founder and former head of The Druid Network, defines awen as ‘flowing spirit‘ and says […]

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Babylon on the Rhone

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It’s very weird how one thing can lead to another! I started with Dante and Beatrice (Bee-a-tree-chay…oops. Done that one.) and ended up in the Babylonian Captivity. Shrug. Wiki : Dante Wiki : Beatrice Portinari   O all ye passing by along Love’s way, attend a while and see if there be sorrow such as […]

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My Kind of IF

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Apologies to Mr R Kipling   If you can keep your head when all about you If I can keep my head when all about me      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, Are trolling others and blaming it on me If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, If I […]

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If…

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Apologies to Mr R Kipling but. BUTT. I SWEAR (1?) that I am going to rewrite his lovely poem. With lines like… Having to restart/restore the laptop several times a day Having to take one more threatening phone call from a FAF company demanding with menaces Having to be derailed from my work by wannabes……….. […]

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John Keats

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I’ve been reading Keat’s poem, Endymion. I’d started looking into Perseus but came across this and went off the rails, as per!   Endymion, iv …“Over wide streams and mountains great we went, And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent, Onward the tiger and the leopard pants,                     With Asian elephants: Onward these myriads—-with song […]

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Keats Vibe. And No Birds Sing

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And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing. La Belle Dame sans Merci   And throw them in lake – as Kate says :o)    

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Money Talks, History Walks

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I’d love to claim the saying above as mine but it belongs to Obviously Outraged Obsolete Oddie. I have to agree with him here. And question (!) everyone, everywhere who sits back whilst this unconscionable destruction goes on right before our eyes.   For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne No man is an […]

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Mad. Bad etc

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Darkness BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON) I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day, And […]

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And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea

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Gotta love a bit of Percy Bysshe :o) And a bit of Lewis (?) Love’s Philosophy BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The fountains mingle with the river    And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever    With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single;    All things by a law divine In […]

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