Best Lir Poems

The Wild Hunt
by Michael R. Burch

(King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been reported as ghostly hunters, near Devon, around Halloween.)

Near Devon, the hunters appear in the sky
with Artur and Bedwyr sounding the call;
and the others, laughing, go dashing by.
They only appear...

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The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch

Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men. 

Only to dance in the starlight
when the moon was full
and men were afraid.
Only to worship in the farthest glade,
ever heeding the...

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Nov huine i lost ungwe'eva
Tiro!
I ungol raea mi mor du'eva
Edro thalion heni a lir i lissi silme galiel i
Tenn'umbar i loy linant
dim ri'eva,
Thin na i lost ore mi
anca iaeva. A! I
ungol undulavant alag
amarth'esse.
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The hollow gloom of the empty spider web
Watch!
The spider strays in the dark...

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The Tale of Artuir mac Aedan; The light of the West.

In The Begining.

Behold my son this our home of Airer Goidell
in the land of Airer Goidell in Alba.
Far from our birthland of Ulaid across the sea,
a sea ruled by Manaanan Mac Lir 
We came here...

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