Geraldine Moorkens Byrne

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If I should die tonight
and my bones laid in the earth
would my voice not be the wind
and the sun my smile?
...

You see black
I see a spectrum of invisability
the myriad shades of the dark rainbow
like the spread of raven's wing
...

One note rising on the wind:
piper play, the lament is called for:
lower him down and softly keen
Cu Chulainn's going to his rest.
...

In Nomine Patre
who art encountered
in the skies on
clouds with harps
...

A pooka grazes peacefully
where the river
meets the sea
In the ruins of a castle,
...

The wild west for us
was never the stone walls
and fragments of land between them
the ragged, wild, bog-spawned
...

Across the last plains
under leaden skies,
the ground peat-brown beneath;
Turf cutters pausing to point
...

When I couldn't bear it anymore
the nurse pointed to the glass door
and said:
the grounds are lovely
...

Do not awaken slumbering beasts;
They are guarding secrets
...

Cold light seeped in, through misted frames
Casting a golden glow over smoke rising
from the cigarette in my hand and hanging over the grill;
tobacco and bacon and fried eggs.
...

I was restored by the sight of her
my bustling nursing Sylvie with long smiles,
and I told her so.
She shook her head, still smiling.
...

In essence,
breath and bone;
light fingers tracing
gray stone;
...

I let myself in
with the key of the kings and
wrapped red ribbons
around my poor head.
...

Twitch! I think.
Twitch, I beg.
Stumbling over uneven ground
trying to feel with rods,
...

You can keep your snow-capped mountains
I can pass
on fields of virgin white.
The real power of snow is seen
...

1.
Circular
these are the paths we walk
Spiral.
...

'I gave her my old phone, she was stone delighted, '
the Navan man said:
while his Cork culchie brethren
blew hot and cold into the headpiece
...

Renaissance and Restoration,
diffuse threads in that fraying coat, Time;
twisted, knotted, intertwined,
mine own heart and thine.
...

I was not well that day.

Two weeks of late nights and countless
vodkas
...

Where once stood tribes
who rose and fell
on the bounty of a living land
soul and soil intertwined
...

Geraldine Moorkens Byrne Biography

Poet, and Musician from Dublin Ireland: born 1968, graduated UCD 1989, postgrad COCR 1990: worked in Advertising, Publishing and finally the family music business. Sings/composes Irish traditional Music, plays cello, mandolin, bodhrán: Editor/founding Editor of the Pagan Poetry Pages www.paganpoetrypages.com: the pagan poetry movement explores our humanity through our relationship with nature and this physical reality. Blog: http: //www.geraldinemoorkensbyrne.com Published in Anthologies, magazines and ezines: full list available)

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If I should die tonight
and my bones laid in the earth
would my voice not be the wind
and the sun my smile?
I am the blood in your veins;
all the lives I have lived
have been, in this way,
transmuted to new life
flowing from your heart to mine.
I am the beat of the Bodhrán
and the touch of the line on water
I am the thought unbidden
the instinct that springs -
If you listen not to me,
then you ignore yourself,
and silence your own voice.
I am the string plucked,
the note quivering
the dream sung by voices
you remember from your cradle.
I am the silent watch of the nights
and the first breath of morning
because you carry me always in your heart

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