Kells Poems

My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun Sonnet 130

...My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. 
Her skin's mahogany, not regal white. 
She slaps on paints and fillers by the ton, 
and has the dress sense of an anchorite. 

Fastidious? Only in he...

Categories: kells, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet

Filigree

...Filigree
Celtic Filigree

Graceful filigree unbroken 
Weaves a tracery
With strands entwined
Like a whisper from the misty isles
Woven into whorls of melodic unity,
Indivisible spirals of the...

Categories: kells, ireland, life,
Form: Free verse

Shamrock Reflections

...Roads rising up from Irish mists in merry jigs
To the flowing tenor song
Sung by the River Boyne born from Tara's Keep
As Patrick's paschal fire
Weaves truth from stones of blarney
And lucky cha...

Categories: kells, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Thirty-Two

...from island corner, big Antrim lad
  to Belfast city, a tiny pad
  shattered windows, tilted clocks
  Goliath had lost his socks
  gargantuan giant going mad

  Armagh apple girl, any topic
  ...

Categories: kells, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse

Padraig's Fire

...Padraig's Fire

Hurry!
Hurry through the night
With windstorms
Breathing at your back
Before the shadows know
You pass their doors -
Their darkened, dusty, empty hearths -
Before the dawn as...

Categories: kells, baptism, celebration, ireland, life,
Form: Free verse

Happy Larks 4th Poem

...Have nothing to say, but lots to write
Can’t see in the dark, will wait till its light
The birds are still nesting, there’s nothing to do
But before I do back to bed, how are you?

Happy Lark is...

Categories: kells, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Chi - Rho In the Book of Kells

...CHI - RHO    IN  THE  BOOK OF KELLS 


A millennium and more since it left the Scottish shore,
Chi -Rho  Christ’s name 
Swirling  in an anaesthetising trance induces
The soul-memory  back  to a...

Categories: kells, bible, history, ireland, religion,
Form: Imagism

My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun

...My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. 
Her skin's mahogany, not regal white. 
She slaps on paints and fillers by the ton, 
and has the dress sense of an anchorite. 

Fastidious? Only in he...

Categories: kells, love,
Form: Sonnet

Amphetamine Salts

...Hail, oh hypoactive attention deficit,
With a brain that's raveled in tumbleweed,
Inundate thy mind with alchemical medicine,
To satisfy thy folly's focus dressed in tweed. 

Suck the soma from ...

Categories: kells, addiction, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

Kvelling

...The Irish have the Book of Kells,
A wise and ancient tome,
But I prefer the hook of kvells,
Much closer to my home.

To kvell, in Yiddish, means to crow,
Most likely rather loud,
About someone who ma...

Categories: kells, daughter, son,
Form: Rhyme

Celtic Knots

...Show me what you've woven
And show the children too
From ancient time
In weave design
Eight knots are born of you

The Book of Kells
And Lindisfame
In threads of time divine
Beginnings of
T...

Categories: kells, art
Form: Dramatic Monologue