a poem is a sermon
Oh Paddy, oh Paddy! Long have you and I held difference perspectives, not seen eye to eye, nor found much in common, through legend or faith, or some shared experience wrangling with wraiths. I wonder, St. Patrick; and wonder makes doubt: disabling sureness of what one’s about. Is that what’s called “testing” or “trials” in […]
After the “Song of Amergin” I have been a fly on the wall of a corporate meeting I have been a child lost in snow that drifted roof high I have been a broke-winged bird, flightless through winter I have been a prisoner in some Gothic dungeon I have been a supporter of lost, hopeless […]
At seven ten this morning as the night gave way to dawn a band of three of black druids* gathered out on my front lawn I heard them last night singing in the dead calm, loud and clear; but did not recognize their song until they drew more near. Drawn to my house, I might […]
After pondering Peter Beresford Ellis’ introduction to Celtic Myths and Legends, where he postulates an affinity between the Celtic and Vedic cultures, based on their shared common root language, proto-Indo-European, I pulled this earlier poem out and thought of it in a purely Celtic mythos-mindset, as opposed to its original casting as a meditation on […]
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A flash of gray against the sun and cloud, then swift and sure he plummets to his prey; Above the warp and woof he watches, proud, examining the context of our way. The puzzle is the sum of all its pieces, he tells us, seeking balance with the whole; And in the insignificant and tiny […]