Monthly Archives: July 2020

Newgrange # Yeats Hawthorns are swaying Outside of Drumcliffe While herons are patient Their victims to miff A Trove of fine treasure By Boyne’s river mouth Chests filled with Folklore In wee county Louth Swift is the hunter With arrow … Continue reading →

Mozart # A Concerto Fierce howling winds Blow from the Atlantic Curates and Parsons And fiddlers are frantic Windmills are spinning On far away hills As waves hit Bundoran In thunderous spills St. Mullins is waiting For news from the … Continue reading →

O’Brien, Kavanagh # Bloomsday. Red roses enchanting Outside of Mooncoin As sun soaks the valley Beneath Sliabh na mBan Blue skies enshrouding There’s one place to be Where the Mountains of Mourne Sweep down to the sea Folks of good … Continue reading →

Sadhbh and the Supermoon (Sadhbh:Sive..in English) The wooded colonnade is still And evening cloud Hangs like a baldachin Heathers are fanned As gossamer strings swirl in unison Like a trillion fairy skipping ropes The airborne cloak dissipates Momentarily And there … Continue reading →

Percy French # Guinness. The battle of Aughrim Fierce slaughter ensued Yet as with the virus Our folk were imbued Restrictions are easing One small step today From Kerry to Cavan The eighteenth of may Freshly cut grasses Waft in … Continue reading →

Hi out there ! Ok so I’m new to this amazing world of blogging! A big thank you to those who have liked or commented on my blogs so far. As you can see they are a series rhyming quatrains … Continue reading →

Ray Charles and Goddess Dana. No breast of medals No flouncy cockade Gives one permission To hog the parade As one we are mighty Apart we will fall Oarsmen in tandem Are smoothest of all Show no disrespect No fear … Continue reading →

W.B Yeats and No Second Troy. Blog. I met Christy Brady The script he did print Our fine proclamation Still glued to the plinth If they only knew then What Ireland knows now Would their dreams be in tatters Would … Continue reading →