TAIGH NA GAREACH
Many ‘Murphy’s’ in the area...
So nick- names slipped off the tongue;
His suited a way of believing in
Fairies where he fished off the rock
At Lough Currane. ‘Taigh na gareach’,
‘Tag of the Fairies’.
Not one could convince him to change
His belief in ‘magic & luck’,
Not even his brother ‘Cod Murphy’,
So where he fished off a rock in
The mountains, the name
‘Taigh na gareach’ stuck...
https://issuu.com/threedropsfromacauldron/docs/three_drops_from_a_cauldron_-_issue_b80d705046391e
Saturday, 27 May 2017
Saturday, 18 March 2017
MOURNING
MOURNING
I think, it was the winding lane that did it – the one
Lined with daffodils: Wordsworth would have approved.
I had my own poem set out – open like the cupped
Yellow offerings; perhaps I’d have added in: Sun-trapped
Stone steps - coming down from the white-washed loft;
And what the house held:
The bed-rails, the heavy wardrobe and ancient drawers,
The lace of the curtains, and the old dresser,
A range to help a kettle sing, and streams,
Of light across the lanolin floor – peeping
From wide window-sills, with hills outside.
Now, I have to content myself with the fact that - we have
A bigger vegetable patch here, than the little fenced one
At the back of the cottage we nearly had –
I knew the man who lived there once.
I think, it was the winding lane that did it – the one
Lined with daffodils: Wordsworth would have approved.
I had my own poem set out – open like the cupped
Yellow offerings; perhaps I’d have added in: Sun-trapped
Stone steps - coming down from the white-washed loft;
And what the house held:
The bed-rails, the heavy wardrobe and ancient drawers,
The lace of the curtains, and the old dresser,
A range to help a kettle sing, and streams,
Of light across the lanolin floor – peeping
From wide window-sills, with hills outside.
Now, I have to content myself with the fact that - we have
A bigger vegetable patch here, than the little fenced one
At the back of the cottage we nearly had –
I knew the man who lived there once.
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
THE VOYAGING VESSEL
THE VOYAGING VESSEL
Even as the tides subside
I glide the horizon like a black-
Backed gull.
Waves of awe unleash
A various world of
Words I find deep in the folds
Of a sail-weathered wind
Freedom
Like golden grain in my hand
Rolling the currents to fly
Against a limitless sky…
I harbour the salt and the scent
From bays of seafaring faces,
The sea of pearled possibilities
Where beneath the rim and the rhythm
Coral, shells and speckled fish
Water me with colour.
https://tintean.org.au/2017/02/06/poetry-13/
Even as the tides subside
I glide the horizon like a black-
Backed gull.
Waves of awe unleash
A various world of
Words I find deep in the folds
Of a sail-weathered wind
Freedom
Like golden grain in my hand
Rolling the currents to fly
Against a limitless sky…
I harbour the salt and the scent
From bays of seafaring faces,
The sea of pearled possibilities
Where beneath the rim and the rhythm
Coral, shells and speckled fish
Water me with colour.
https://tintean.org.au/2017/02/06/poetry-13/
Saturday, 7 January 2017
THE LAST FIRE
THE LAST FIRE
You gathered sticks
To bathe the night with fire,
You, in your element
Smiling watery eyes;
Happy sighs – as you bent.
The next day your soul gathered
Over your cold body
To be buried under sticks and clay….
You gathered sticks
To bathe the night with fire,
You, in your element
Smiling watery eyes;
Happy sighs – as you bent.
The next day your soul gathered
Over your cold body
To be buried under sticks and clay….
Thursday, 8 December 2016
RIVER BANK
RIVER BANK
After the yellow-brown leaves
Are washed with sunlight,
I’ll be the dipper that flies
And returns; when the water low
My poetry slowed to a trickle
The remaining ripples, like leaves
Disappeared; or ink from my pen,
Seeped into river-banks again....
After the yellow-brown leaves
Are washed with sunlight,
I’ll be the dipper that flies
And returns; when the water low
My poetry slowed to a trickle
The remaining ripples, like leaves
Disappeared; or ink from my pen,
Seeped into river-banks again....
Published in Stanzas and The Galway Review
Sunday, 30 October 2016
A NEW DAWN OF WORDS
A New Dawn of Words
I try to let time pass,
Slowly - as always,
Yet it still
Goes fast
Beauty of Words….
Ordinary life dimmed
Yet not put out
By this glorious light.
Peace surrounds me
Like a forgotten vale:
Un-earthed from childhood:
A forgotten state of grace.
A web of story-telling -
In a different place
This time....
https://thegalwayreview.com/2016/05/13/helen-harrison-two-poems/
I try to let time pass,
Slowly - as always,
Yet it still
Goes fast
Beauty of Words….
Ordinary life dimmed
Yet not put out
By this glorious light.
Peace surrounds me
Like a forgotten vale:
Un-earthed from childhood:
A forgotten state of grace.
A web of story-telling -
In a different place
This time....
https://thegalwayreview.com/2016/05/13/helen-harrison-two-poems/
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