Monday, November 28, 2011

Glendalough

"GLENDALOUGH" - Máire Morrissey-Cummins


An austere life
of poverty and prayer,
weeps from wet,
moss grown granite.
Ritualistic chanting
echoes church ruins,
circling gravestones
of nameless souls.

Dark spirits
cloak the forests,
casting eerie shadows
on a quivering lake.
The evening mist
drifts the mountains,
sighs through the valleys,
as dusk descends
on a long forgotten past.

(Glendalough is a 6th Centuary Monastery in County Wicklow, Ireland.)

BIO:  Máire was born in Ireland but has lived throughout Europe and presently moves between her homes in Ireland and Germany with her husband of 30 years. Being very creative, she enjoys painting with watercolour and acrylic mediums, and is a published poet with the Irish Haiku Society and Haiku Ireland. Máire has also had a number of standard poems published in local and foreign poetry anthologies, journals, e-zines and online forums.

9 comments:

  1. YAHOO MAIRE!
    Love it!
    Great read and great sense of history.
    xxx Mari

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  2. Barbara Boyd-Anderson28 November, 2011 11:30

    Fantastic, Maire....And perfect for your winter season...XX

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  3. Mari and Barbara, thank you for commenting on this, appreciate it:))) Maire x

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  4. I just knew when I saw the title this one would be yours, Maire - very nice!

    marion

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  5. Hi Maire


    Wanderful as always

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  6. Marion,
    Thank you so much for the message, I am here thanks to you:))) You are a sweetheart. Maire x

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  7. Susie,
    Thank you so much for your visit and for taking the time to comment. You are a soul sister like all of my writing pals. Smiling emoticon here:))) Maire x

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  8. Brilliant write Maire!
    Well done.

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  9. You too Amy, well done. We are doing well:))) Hugs Maire xx

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