The Dun :Torr Na Craoibhe
...A great forest grows dark and green,
Where little birds twitter amid the leaves,
Reynard the red coated one keen eye searching,
For squirrels leaping among branches tall,
Making sure the youngst...
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Categories:
sidhe, fantasy, people, remember,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fairy Folk
...Fairy Folk
Ignoring those with little wings,
will leave a curse that tightly clings.
For, hidden in Manannan's cloak,
are the Island's fairy folk.
So say 'hello' while on their land,
or b...
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Categories:
sidhe, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Beltanes Night:The Fairy Dance
...Beltane’s Night
On the eve of Beltane
The Earth’s call rang across hill and heather, towards ford and cliff
From tree to river the door calls, spirits of earth so fair,
Heard by elf and pixie, aw...
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Categories:
sidhe, fairy,
Form: Ballad
Psalm Contest
...Psalm of the Heretics Saved
Oh, God!
You’ve taken my hands;
the blood spills onto the heathen soil of my birth!
The jaguar cannot help me.
The mighty pyramid rising past the trees
is a pride ...
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Categories:
sidhe, abuse, angel, anger, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Naddred 2:
...Ravens chew on twigs while deep in thought,
Larks have three dots on their tongue,
Badgers are the keepers of the sacred stories,
Blackbird is the bird of both the gateway and forge.
Cernunnos is...
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Categories:
sidhe, inspirational, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse
Celtic Mist
...CELTIC MIST
Through mists of time and legends lore,
a Celtic mist invades our core.
Haunts our soul, stirs our mind,
looks through eyes forever blind.
To ancient times, lost along the way,
like an or...
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Categories:
sidhe, fantasy, ireland, mythology,
Form: Couplet
Hymn of the Sidhe At Uaigh Na Gcat
...Where regal forts lie dormant now,
Once Maedbh beheld the Sacred Cow,
At Cruachan of the fifty mounds,
From Uaigh na gCat came Faery sounds,
A vision, behold, Róisín Dubh,
Symphony of my sto...
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Categories:
sidhe, places, visionarymay, me,
Form: Epic
Haggis and Drinks Mi Luve (Mythology)
...Let’s hve haggis and drinks mi luve
Find de bes ina de ole land
Lay yu head on mi chest mi luve
Whilst wi dance musik wid de band
Dance wid de band in de Highlands
Backyard jig good fer de ol...
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Categories:
sidhe, adventure, fantasy, funny, happiness,
Form: Ballad
St. Cyril's Well, Anglesey, Wales Uk
...My heart has sought your mystery
guardian dryad, ivy tressed tree,
other worldly mound and ley;
long I’ve searched the fair Sidhe.
Here, found I the ancient long bone,
the knurled hawthorn, th...
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Categories:
sidhe, adventure
Form: Quatrain
The Sidhe
...Oh, God and Goddess are all around us.
from place to place unguided,
they’ve found us.
Land of limpid eyes and skies,
where mystery abounds.
‘Mongst lisping lips, oft heard
Gaelic limerick...
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Categories:
sidhe, imagination
Form: Free verse