Don’t Seek Favours from the Good Folk
Some folk are brave and more are not To ask the good folk for what they seek Those spirit folk we called …
Three Magpies a Wedding Watched
To Geraldine & Joe, on the occasion of their wedding! There is an old Irish tradition that three magpies at a wedding …
No Dancing Sun This Easter Morning
No dancing sun the Easter morning As the birds sing in the sky I sleepy look out at the dawn As the …
The Camera Steals the Spirit
The elders spoke against the box Covered with the cloth That painted pictures on the glass And they wanted not Their picture …
Two Magpies – Lough Atalia
Before me from the railtrack a magpie few Alone over the lake to trees Another for sorrow, of the piseog I thought: …
Summits Reached Before Depths
I climbed Cairn Hills summit step by step On a day when all was well The depths to which I was about …
Lone Magpie On Lough Atalia Shoreline
A lone magpie was on Lough Atalia shore: One for sorrow, I looked for more, Alas, no more were to be seen …