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Perhaps an Anthem for Irish Travellers:


Oh yes, we are the Travellers of this land,
those who stride out to an older chant,
obeying our ancient spirit's command,
"
mishlee the thoaber, thaari the Cant."

Not for us were the country man's ways,
nor for any other to be deemed our master,
we'd go where we wish, at our own pace,
fast as we wished and surely no faster.

Scant welcome had we on the byroads of Erin,
and of late even America forsakes our hand;
the lies now pursue us beyond toleration
and freedom for nomads is sought to be banned.

The Life can never be fettered and numbered,
nor lines and borders ever enslave our band;
our people will never by chains be encumbered.
Oh yes, we are the Travellers of this land.


A short bit of free verse about nothing and everything:

Always questions, we say,
far more than answers;
yet answers lie abandoned,
strewn upon the universe,
while questions go begging
for parents to conceive them.



A bit more on a theme by a much better-known poet:

No less passive
than a sundial,
I cast the shade
that love would not,
to shroud in time
the unforgivable.



A poem for all the Roses who have gone before:

 

               A Rose becomes when wandering seed takes root

                       and in trembling Winter, from the vine must fall.

               Were this all of Rose's fate that nature knew,

                       then life is cruelty and nothing else at all.

       

               Ah, but in the Spring when sunshine splashed and spun,

                       while her perfumed petals enchanted your hearts;

               she held you all like golden bees in worship.

                       Think of her then, when Rose perfected her arts.

 

To play (MIDI), click here Molly St. Georges

 

 

A poem for the Travelling Life:

           Bypass
   
     
                   I'm headed down the road today,
                        just reading billboards and
                   watching signposts rush the other way.
                        There's young-love songs
                        that fill the air,
                   but I am otherwise, it's sad to say.
   
                    It's just that sometimes it seems to be,
                        that my trailer's pushing me!
                   God only knows what I hope to find,
                        ploughing bow-waves,
                        the wind-shadows
                   passing truckers always leave behind.
   
                    There is naught back there but broken dreams
                        to rain upon my soul
                   and here sunbeams sing and wind-leaves sway
                        to airs so faint,
                        I can't quite hear.
                   Maybe I could further down the way.
   
                    The air of the open road is sweet,
                        free and clear of yesterday,
                   though traces linger from long ago,
                        just wisps of joy
                        that touch the heart
                   and call to mind how I loved her so.

 

 

 

To play (MIDI), click here Miss Hamilton

 

 

 

A  poem for a settled life:

                    Now And Then
   


                    Now and then
                   I deem mankind a source of pride
                   so capable of vast insight
                   both quasar and nucleotide
                   yield to mind.
   
                    Yet I find
                   churchly princes affect control
                   they claim the way, the truth, the light
                   heavenly pie to possess our soul
                   rise and fall.
   
                    Still and all
                   there is a time before my sleep
                   to pray to God just once each night
                   for still-loved souls within His keep
                   then, amen.

 

 

 

Additional poetry pages:

Poetry of Love

Poetry of Loss

Poetry for Satire

Poetry on Aging

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