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Grainne
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Love reached through the leaves Rowanberry red, blood dark, She cupped her hands, her face, her lips And drank it thick and sweet, Drank it to the lees, Though the lees were more bitter Than wormwood.
Deirdre
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
It will soon be time to obstruct the ether with propaganda for Grá mo Chroí, the palpitating collection of love stories taken from Irish myth that Ali Isaac and I will be releasing on February 11th. In the meantime, I shall begin with a few poems inspired by the…
Featured poem
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Dagda Publishing have featured one of my poems ‘She watches the night fade’ on their blog today. Thank you, Dagda, you have made my day 🙂 http://dagdapublishing.co.uk/2015/01/27/watches-night-fade/
Paradise
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
If, to earn paradise, The price is murder, I will take my handful of ashes Into the earth’s gentle depths And lie with the dogs. I will curl in the warm darkness With the ghosts of the fox and the hare, And if you join me there, We will…
Lost at sea
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Tossed like a leaf on a stormy sea, My heart drifts, weightless, rudderless, Too light to sink, Too broken to steer. I search the darkness for a star To guide me home beyond the jagged rocks. Call me from the distant shore, And light a beacon for the night…
It Was A Pleasure To Burn
Originally posted on Vampires, Crime and Angels…Eclectic Me:
** THIS IS A REBLOG OF A VERY EARLY POST ** ? Many a thing will burn, In the midnight sky, There is a lesson to learn, As the flames reach high High above the clouds, The flame flickers and glows, Into the crowds, The laughter…
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