A Bealtain Ode

Bealtáine Joys

O the joys of merry May when lovers to 

 hill sides go hand in hand gaily dancing 

carefree to their hidden bower!

© MRL 1/5/2015

The Tuareg Man

   This is a poem recently composed by an old friend of mine Lin Hennessy  who lives in Somerset UK. I slowly read it out loud to myself, twice and found it to be very soothing I hope it's images do the same for you.

TUAREG MAN

The spirit of a tuareg man

              came to me, 

                    dressed in the light, the blue of the sky,

...........................in the blue robes

     He danced for  me

            and for his land

                   so i could see,

   His bare feet touching, 

      gentle

         moving 

            on his beloved,

               The SAHARA.

Gentle,...... gentle,
         movement, his feet in tune with the land,
                 the shifting, golden sands
                            and the singing stars

He the axis.

            He wore the blue veil,

                   To hide his beauty

                        But,  I ,  can see his, beauty
                                and

                             The harmony of his land.

     So he taught,

           me how to dance again,

                 so i too, 

                

          am
                          dancing the light,

                           dancing the land.

I thank him, for holding the light

Valentines day 2015

© Lin Hennessy

CELEBRATING 72

Celebrating 72

Having now had a birthday and being undecided 

about my age. Am I twenty-seven or seventy-two 

because I only feel thirty-five inside ?

Site soothed eyes

How enticing looked
each side 
a mountain
green of smooth silk
ripe and lush
Tempted my eyes
lustily to roam
enjoy  savour
sweet freshness
beneath my tongue
to dance over 
swirl sip swallow 
deep inside 
a joy of wonder !

© MRL 11.01.15

National Poetry Day Ireland & UK

Self giving a poetry reading in an annexe of Birr Library.

National Poetry Day 2014

On October 2nd I gave an hour long poetry reading to a group of sixteen year old students from St Brendan's Community School in the library at Birr in celebration of the National Poetry Day.

For further details please visit http://aheronsview.blogspot.ie

In memory

In memory 

or a new take on 
Cider with Rosie.

Dressed in black she cuts no slack

She totters along full of Gin

Glassy eyed and very thin

She keeps her clothes in a bin

I knew her once full of bounce

The over brave she would trounce

Designer clothes full of colour

Or was that her brother?

Was his name Phil, Jim or Mark

No matter both good for a lark

When lots cider pints were cozy

At the bar with Mark and Rosie.

      © MRL Sept 2014

SYLPH

                       

SYLPH 

In bed with arm up stretched a slow coolness slips

silkily slowly to cross palm with gentle comfort.

No human hand this, well not alive in a real sense

nor a nightly dream, a gift, a touch delivered unseen.

Her aura a delicate bouquet, a floral fragrance floats

smoothly silently riding above dark waves of night.

Just as a beach is I too am smoothed settled to sleep

Tended by unknown sylph till daylight breaks her spell.

         © MRL August 2014

A POETRY READING

I have been asked to do a poetry reading  

I asked on what date 

She said on national poetry day

I bowed my head in gratitude

For this was something I never knew

To think in all my years of scribbling

When I wrote October is Golden

that this is what it meant!

And not the tumbling bronze leaves

nor the demise of a dear friend.

Where shall I start 

chronologically perhaps

At the beginning

When in my head two part lines tumbled

On searching they were never found

"through green swards we walked..

..lovers in a dew scented forest"

Timid,afraid of plagiarism

They were never used

Not even now not owned by me

Nor cannot be

Even though they echo in my head

Perhaps some literary buff

an academic of renown

Will quote from a long forgotten

little known dusty historic ode

To bring me down and into shame.

[to be on October 2nd 2014]

©MRL 31-03-14