It was easier to fall in love when people were destitute.
- El Habib Louai
Faith in God, help of family,
They had a little home,
Then they had their family,
A world of their own.
Having nothing, anything
In its own way was good,
Everything was possibly…
Everybody could!!!
Faith in God is lesser now,
Family don’t want to know
Th [...]
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Poverty Makes All Things Possible
It was easier to fall in love when people were destitute.
- El Habib Louai
Faith in God, help of family,
They had a little home,
Then they had their family,
A world of their own.
Having nothing, anything
In its own way was good,
Everything was possibly…
Everybody could!!!
Faith in God is lesser now,
Family don’t want to know
Th [...]
Aged Eyes
Aged eyes, that one were with passion lit
Now are dark, as if no longer there
Is life, much less passion, lost in thoughts
Of times past they refuse to share
We look on the follies of the youth
Caught in passions throes, and we forget
That these aged eyes once were wild and young
Perhaps in their mind they still are yet.
The Woman Behind the Veil — The...
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Pope Francis – A New Tsar at th...
Pope Francis – Blessing the Catholic faithful while not condemning the African cardinal who said those who have sex with kids were sick and not criminals
The Vatican appoints a new Tsar…
Fawning, the faithful, joyfully welcome him
Forget wrongs past committed against man
And more importantly, against God.
In their lust to obtain a [...]
To Have Love is to Have the World
To have love is to have the world
By some men it is said
But what when you lose it
And the passion is dead
And yet the person you desire
Is all but dead to you
You have the world but not your beloved
What then do you do?
So he is poor man who has it
His heart open unfurled
And believes that it is true
To have love is to have the world…
[...]
Cupid the Hitman
Cupid from Galatea by Raphael
There’s a little fella flying,
He’s appearing here and there,
Striking victims at random,
He can appear anywhere!
The police put out a description…
A chubby cherub with wings…
Known to strike folk by twos!
Afflict them with love, and all that brings!
The Garda are looking for him…
Th [...]
Lovers of the Lakes of Tears
Imilchil Betrothal Festival – Morrocco
The Imilchil wedding festival is an annual gathering of the Berber peoples so betrothals can take place.
Unlike other Islamic societies, Berbers still practice marriages by the heart, where lovers choose each other, as opposed to being chosen for each other by families.
A local legend tells of two [...]
Consequences of a Drunken Cupid
“I love you , I hate you at the same time” he said
As she sobbing, begged him to stay
Two drunken lovers fighting in the street
As past them I went on my way.
And a smashing sound of a glass been thrown
Smashed to smithereens on the pavement
Echoed to my whistling as I
Walked home in the small hours content.
Lovers quarrels: if th [...]
Burns Loved The Lasses
Burns loved the lasses, out with many he walked
How the parsons grumbled: how the people talked!
Condemned he was by parson and people, in pulpit and letter!
Shame on the ladies who walked out with a man like he!
The lad that loved the lasses scorned them all
Who he and his ladies as sinners they did call
And chided them for having nothing to [...]
She Seeks
She seeks, each morning new, her desire
And me? I remember her, she who I did desire
Dripping, rain finds home from its flight from the clouds
I still falling fail to land from loss of she who I did desire.
Downward, ever downward, continuance of journey
To an end that God for me does desire
I alone, slowly race through crowds
To be alone amo [...]
Lettera D’Amore
Cara mia, ti voglio bene—My darling, I love you
The words to her I wanted to say
But I never did, and so I regret that
And I will until my dying day.
Come sei bella—How beautiful you are…
I think by my look that she knew
But she got those looks from so many men
That I never said so I forever will rue…
Tu sei una stella… You [...]
Poison Dwells in the Best of Hearts
Poison dwells in the best of hearts
In the purest of the pure
Hatred exists for someonme somewhere
Of that we can be sure
It tells who really is man
Who turns away when hatred does beck
He is the one who is pure
For he holds his hatred in check.
He with much less venom
But who is not content
Until he spreads his poison
Against those of whom i [...]
Flown Butterfly, Remembered, Regrette...
Flown, she of painted wings, long flown
Forlorn, I think of other things, have known
Tears, shed for her memory, who never knew!
Tears, shed by fools like me, who failed to do
Speak, of love secret held in heart, undeclared
Seek, today and forever apart, compared
She: flown and her flight for her found: settled
Me, stayed but in staying neve [...]
Lines Written at the Pura Vida Coffee...
No, they have no Turkish Coffee
Will Puerto Rican do?
And Apple tart? Why, yes it will!
And I sit in full view
As the cooling winds of evening
Calm the dying hours of the day
And drunken men and women
Past me make their way.
This is Galway in the Summer
A throbbing heartbeat of life and joy
And the trials of life is a young girls tears
As she [...]
Butterfly – She Flitted And Set...
Butterfly long flown, now settled
Tears I fight, happy her flight
Brought her to this – tears of loss
That is my own, blame also!
He who stays silent of his love
Shall live to see another win hers
And rue his silence.
But it is a day to be happy!
For to love truly is to be happy -
At the happiness of those you adored…
And move on [...]
Our Never Had Romance
Lyrics and singing by Guillherme Schroeter
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Less Is More
More or less, less is more
Less shown, the unknown
Imagined excites, invites investigation
Honey to a fly, man is caught before
He realises he has known
The perils of the seas of copulation.
Another girl, jewels on display
For lasting love, waits another day.
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The Ladys Many Charms – I ~ Lip...
Lipstick, warpaint of the War of Love -
Red as the blood it aims to spill
If only metaphorically speaking
Red as the blood it aims to thrill
Or palest hues, sublime desires
Aims to make mankind think
- Or womankind of that persuasion!!! -
Of what lies beyond the pink…
A nights passion, together enjoyed…
A morning spent in each oth [...]
The Courtly Lovers
Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile
Wrought tears from my heart, not blood:
From me she has flown, from afar loved unknown
A love unspoken, perhaps understood?
Yes, I adore thee, as Dante did Beatrice
Though saw you more than twice did I
We danced – danced but once together
We parted – the years pass slowly by…
“Read the wo [...]
Whose World Is It Anyway II(Reply to ...
Men, we are Gods tortured souls
Women, the source of the scourge of our desire
We do not care if on our death
Were tossed into hells fire
For those who’ve braved a woman’s wrath
Know the Devil is a Doddle
And to the scorching flames he
Will quite happily toddle!!!
The bins are out, but at the wrong time
And we haven’t done the dishes
Bu [...]
Whose World Is It Anyway?
A slap in the face is a glorious thing
When received by another
A blow to their self esteem
You can empathise and call them brother
For ladies like not the men who are forward
And like less the men who are shy
They tell us not to be mushy
And when were not, they then ask why.
Women are for men a puzzle
The rubiks cube of creation
They donR [...]
War Poem?
Tears flow from eyes that rarely wrinkle with smiles
Smoke reaches for the sky
A tragic picture, lens zooming
Captures for posterity, perhaps printing
Click, another, one of the pair will be good
Birds avoid the black smoke plumes
The woman wipes a tear
Her man storms off kicking dirt on the smouldering fire.
You thought this was a war poem.
[...]
The Sleeping Beauty and the Sorry Pri...
“Arise from the eternal dream
Allbeit one of bliss
And walk the world of today”
Said the prince with a kiss
The fair maiden with weary eyes
Slowly and mumbling awoke
“A prince whose mine and beautiful”
Were the first words she spoke.
“I have been asleep”, she said
“For over eight hundred years,
And I [...]
The Muses Cafe
As I pay, I look on their faces
And I wonder, are they proud
Now that they are acknowledged with
The respect in life so often not allowed?
And as I eat I wonder will
On some far off distant day
My picture, name and words shall be
On a wall in the Muses Café?
Could I reach the heights they’ve known
With my offerings of poetry and prose
Shall m [...]
Modern Venus
Painting by Roz McQuillan
She sits there, a modern Venus
The seashell thrown to the tossing seas
And to the viewer she is enticing
And see seeks to seduce and tease
And this modern Venus is waiting
It seems for a man
Eyes closed, as if she is dreaming
Imagining if she can
She is running through a field of flowers
As when young, without a care [...]
Age Dims Not Passions Flame
Age does not dim the passion
Maybe ability, but not desire
Lack of agility, but not of fire
Though age may not be in fashion
And the youth think it gross
To tell the truth, dads getting on a bit
He shouldn’t be thinking of, never mind getting it
Forget those who through life are close
See not the wrinkles and the flab
And are not driven [...]
Chinese Lanterns: Sky at Birr 2012
Among the clouds, beneath the stars
A light, you float, so high
A star, but not that you are
Floating in the darkened sky
Some spirits passed are pleased you there
Tell us you watch from above
Those who set you free to fly
In the night sky, with love.
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Love of a Lady Liberated Tam Lin
Teas the love of a lady liberated Tam Lin
From the grasp of the Fairy Queen
To spite all the spells she held on to him well
And won his freedom one dark Halloween
If a man should have such luck to see a lady there pluck
From a wood a protected white rose
How man would chance the depth of Romance
To free a man held so captive by spell do you s [...]
The Courtly Lovers
Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile
Wrought tears from my heart, not blood:
From me she has flown, from afar loved unknown
A love unspoken, perhaps understood?
Yes, I adore thee, as Dante did Beatrice
Though saw you more than twice did I
We danced – danced but once together
We parted – the years pass slowly by.
No virtue caus [...]
