Tag: tara

• Tara of the Kings

  Smoking joints in the trenches surrounding Tara Barring Yank crowds and cawing crows no sounds Snakeless pre and post-Patrick, Catholic mythmaker Using shamrocks to illustrate Christian hat tricks Patron saint of patience waiting on eighths High samhraidh on Tara’s hills, Dowth-surrounded Bizzarre visions, ancestral visitations, cognitive invasions Solar placement, erection without precedent We see them,…

  alchemisland

  24th Jul 2024

  Filí my pockets

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• Falias of the Howling

  Falias, first city Therein file Morfessa confessed ensorceller blessed storyteller Orates upon raindissolved limestone pulpit Impressing on minds malleable mystical lessons Concerning conscious abstention, rotations heavenly Laughing brevity’s uncapacious face, thin close-eyed like a slíbhín marten Levity at death Two hundred years ago he poem-throated first took breath And will another hundred hence. Theirs Lia…

  alchemisland

  7th Jul 2024

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  alchemisland, ancient world, creative writing, druid city, druids, falias, high kings, imagination, ireland, irish mythology, kingship, lia fáil, lore, myth and legend, mythology, neuralchemy, poem, poet, poetry, tara