How a Poet Can Avoid Divorce
The lady deep in her slumbers Was woken by her dear Whose reasons for wakind his beloved was not as romantic as …
Wedding Day for a Pashtun Girl
In learning to live she nearly lost her life Taught to world to love to learn Which is ignorant of a global …
She Stood Alone At The Altar
The Ms Dopping-Hepenstal stood up by her groom who had eloped to India with another woman without her knowing is still spoken of today. Her sister was involved with one of the Edgeworths, but in the end neither girl married. Some versions of the story have Edgeworth as the cad, but most do not.
Dervogilla
Dermots passion, in stealing Teirnans wife, would have an effect on #Ireland that would last longer than the better known wars of Troy …
Adams Hindsight on the Garden of Eden
They walked serene without any clothes Free and easy, them both She bid, he bit, and it got stuck A bit of …
Vampire Killed By Love
I have a friend who is big into all Vampire stories, and we were discussing the saying about who loves the flower …
The Lady of Culray
She was a landlords daughter Her lover not so grand It was illegal to be a Catholic You could not own your …
They Were Lovers Once
The bitter bickering old couple often seen as much as the loving couples… yet they too were lovers once… an old verse …
Our Never Had Romance
(Song – Music: Guillherme Schroeter – Lyrics: Tomás Ó Cárthaigh) I held her hand Just for one dance It was our very …
Three Magpies a Wedding Watched
To Geraldine & Joe, on the occasion of their wedding! There is an old Irish tradition that three magpies at a wedding …
Lovers of Bazdara
A Pashtun (Afghan) love story, of a couple who fell for each other at first sight, but were destined not to be …
Fishermens Tales
Castiglione’s advise on this, well known to Yeats, was literally taken to heart. The courtier must create an image of the beloved …
She Loved Not Him Who Her Father Chose
A poem I wrote some years back, on love, a disapproving family, and a tragedy of murder and suicide! which I now …
Monks Who Have Never Loved Will Never Understand
“How can you suffer because of something that doesn’t exist?” ~ Buddhist Monk Elyane S. Youssef met in Nepal Read her article …
Treasure Sleeps on Chest of All She Needs
There is a lot of “we must look after our own first” going around now that the refuggees from Syria are on …
Flight of Mad Sweeney
He flies over where the Devil could not walk Singing his mournful song of despair The places he has been and all …
Two Swans
Two swans swimming in the river cold Meet beak to beak together In love for life it is said These birds are …
Before We Forgot
Before we forgot Thanks to dogma preached We worried not If sacrament we had reached Before sharing each other Neath the skies …
Queen Bee and the Drones
She flies higher, the queen bee, on the dance of death, of lust and love Till she burns out the drones who …
Rose Among the Weeds
I grew up in an English garden Everything planted by plan, in rows For effect, pleasing to the eye To an order …