Showing posts with label ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ireland. Show all posts

Friday, February 20, 2015

THE WIDOW’S SON, by pd lyons


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THE WIDOW’S SON
at the end of the world we came,
where what more could I do,
but leave you?
now that battles din,
finally in my head grows dim,
I walk alone by the sea,
each swirling drop of blood
reminding me to my own pain….
~
That I could do more I would,
for what would I be without you?
A man is nothing without loyalty,
~
That I could do more I would,
That I gave all I was able,
I was willing.
Know that even now,
for the sake of the Widow’s son,
I stand upon this isle shore.
~
After all is not death the common enemy?
thinking we can manipulate it,
we send it this way and that,
as if to serve our own ends,
when ultimately
that which plays us honour bound,
one against the other -
that is the final victor,
such is our glory.


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Sunday, December 9, 2012

goodbye galway/ hello castlepollard




whose books are these i think i know…
yes will be moving house over the next few days. goodbye galway
hello castlepollard
… and there are boxes (and boxes) to go before i sleep.
Anita Loos

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

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My Kitchen at Midnight reblog from http://taruane.wordpress.com w response by pd lyons

 
 
 
 
 
 
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pdlyons on December 4, 2012 at 2:16 pm said:
you might have woke
slightly
hearing the clink of stirred coffee
smelling the vague smoke
last bit of an old joint
invisible
morning
ghosts
never knowing
daylight
fled
the youth
fleeing
from
old age
midnight
in your kitchen

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

morgan's poem by pd lyons/from pd lyons new book The Girlz

Morgan

the Dogs Bay empty on a grey day
curves a wide scythe of sand
mimicked slopes of rocky hills dissolve again in low grey sky.

the Dogs Bay rings silver laughter a treasure of pearls
beautiful daughter darts like a needle between sea and sand
strangers no choice, stopped in their tracks , infected smiles.

not since the Indian Ocean where she learned to walk
not since Cape Cod where she learned her heritage
not since Cape Breton where she learned of treasure
has she now Connemara remembered

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

This Kitchen Poem

 This kitchen
Soft smoke secrets
Each ghost upon the gale
Welcome here
Each breath
Rare and gifted by such drifters
Visible in smoke
Audible in flame
Never alone.





original work by pd lyons

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

2 more from Ravens



I know forever is the memory of your touch

Angels with broken wings
I taste the sin they bring
I want to cling to them
But something always haunts me
.
Lust that is true,
Dreams that have gone astray
Down every road you know there’s really nothing much to choose
The siren’s sweet lament
Their spell is my intent
But there’s something in my head denying my attempt
A kind of howling sound says I am pledged to you
.
I cross the thousand years
Part the veil of tears
Despite the demon fears
I’m reaching out for you
And breaking through at last
The circle finally cast
Kneeling down I bow my head to you
My sword at your feet
My crown on your lap
My heart into you hands
I am my Lady’s man
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Balreask

Earliest morning I been up
Since we got here
Out in the garden Qi gong cup of tea
One crow on the aerial above the chimney
Is that you ?
Is that really you Maeve?
Yes you are sleek and shiny really beautiful today.
Tilts her head towards me
As if surprised
Then clucks a few syllables in return.

Can we stay Maeve? Can we make our home here
Well not exactly here but in this country. Are we really coming home?
She leans further towards me, opens and closes her beak, leans closer
then whistles three gutsy in her throat whistles & flies.

The grass needs tending
It just might rain
Beginning is the least I can do.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

3 from Wanting To Be In The Old Tongue - by pd lyons

WORSHIP SWANS NO LONGER

When you worship swans no longer
Will you find your way to me?
Smoke rising in a breathless voice
Winding between shade and sun
A dream begun on dew drops
Daring midday like a ghost
Vowing never to fly
From your embrace

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LITTLE SADIE

black velvet traveller
dark morning herald
solitary secrets kept
well behind green eyes
alluded only by such offerings
as left upon our doorstep shrine.




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VIRGINIA, CO. CAVAN ’98

winter wash
sails on hemp rigging
 places precious
this January sun.
strong wind, clear sailing,
a rising Tahitian blue,
fed by silver slips of memory
travelling on wings of fantasy
calling sea birds soar
above a mucky barking back yard dog.






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from Wanting To Be In The Old Tongue
poems of an Irish descent
by pd lyons
Copyright © 2011 PD Lyons
All rights reserved.
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ISBN-10: 1466272996
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

from Wanting To Be In The Old Tongue - by pd lyons


MAEVE’S LAMENT

Bound by chains of lowland vines,
Nourished only by the rain.
The red meat of my heart
Now chips and shards of stone
That even ravens cannot find.

I am most subtle now,
Unable to touch or to be touched,
Only smoky tendrils nimbly wrapped
Upon the memories of men;
A formless thing perceived by them
Only in their sleeping dreams.

Kept alive by hunger.
Eager to be embraced with flesh
And upon the bones of war - like men,
Answer with firm metal once again
The faithful ravens call.

Out of the west
Out of the west
Where is the storm that brings me breath
To let these lips of moss reveal
That charm which causes me to heal -

For when those birds recall my name,
Then will I be whole again.

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 from Wanting To Be In The Old Tongue


Copyright © 2011 PD Lyons
All rights reserved.
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ISBN-13: 978-1466272996
ISBN-10: 1466272996

pdlyonspoet@yahoo.co.uk

Thursday, September 15, 2011

thank you ides of march

Congratulations! Your poems "Tattoo on Leaving Gettysburg" and "King Loaghaire" have been published in the September issue.

Thanks again for your contribution.

--

Samuel T. Franklin
Editor, The Ides of March Journal


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