JackShea
12-19-2006, 11:13 PM
CELTIC DREAMS
Perhaps it was in a former life
I heard the piper blow,
And dreamed my dreams in Celtic
And saw Queen Maeve glow.
I told of Aed and of the Sidhe
To ears deafened to my tune,
So I hid my thoughts, save to me,
And dreamed and dreamed and swooned.
I battled for my Celtic verse, while
Banachas and Bonachas wailed overhead.
All this I learned from Willie the Spooks
Who, under Ben Bulben lies dead.
Perhaps it was from a former life
I strolled in Galway with Synge,
Or flew in battle with the Morrigu
Upon her blackened and shimmering wing
Or saw the poor old woman
In Ireland called the Shan Van Vocht,
Who roams the roads of Eirinn
In search of her fields they took.
Aye, perhaps it were from a past life
I heard the piper blow,
And dreamed my dreams in Celtic,
And saw Queen Maeve glow.
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Author's Note:
Queen Maeve, famous Irish Queen of Connacht. Said to be amorous and warlike.
Aed, referred to as the God of death. All who hear the tune of his harp are soon to die.
Shide, (pronounced Shee) is the Gaelic word for wind. Used to signify the people of the Faery world.
Banachas and Bonachas, were Demons of the air who screamed above warriors in combat urging them on.
Willie the Spooks, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
Ben Bulben, a mountain outside Sligo, Ireland.
Synge, an Irish Playwright.
The Morrigu. The crow-headed Goddess of War.
Shan Van Vocht, signifies the poor old woman who roams the roads of Ireland in search of her four beautiful green fields; the four provinces of Ireland.
Eirinn, (not misspelled) is the ancient way of saying Erin or Eire.
Perhaps it was in a former life
I heard the piper blow,
And dreamed my dreams in Celtic
And saw Queen Maeve glow.
I told of Aed and of the Sidhe
To ears deafened to my tune,
So I hid my thoughts, save to me,
And dreamed and dreamed and swooned.
I battled for my Celtic verse, while
Banachas and Bonachas wailed overhead.
All this I learned from Willie the Spooks
Who, under Ben Bulben lies dead.
Perhaps it was from a former life
I strolled in Galway with Synge,
Or flew in battle with the Morrigu
Upon her blackened and shimmering wing
Or saw the poor old woman
In Ireland called the Shan Van Vocht,
Who roams the roads of Eirinn
In search of her fields they took.
Aye, perhaps it were from a past life
I heard the piper blow,
And dreamed my dreams in Celtic,
And saw Queen Maeve glow.
**********************************************
Author's Note:
Queen Maeve, famous Irish Queen of Connacht. Said to be amorous and warlike.
Aed, referred to as the God of death. All who hear the tune of his harp are soon to die.
Shide, (pronounced Shee) is the Gaelic word for wind. Used to signify the people of the Faery world.
Banachas and Bonachas, were Demons of the air who screamed above warriors in combat urging them on.
Willie the Spooks, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
Ben Bulben, a mountain outside Sligo, Ireland.
Synge, an Irish Playwright.
The Morrigu. The crow-headed Goddess of War.
Shan Van Vocht, signifies the poor old woman who roams the roads of Ireland in search of her four beautiful green fields; the four provinces of Ireland.
Eirinn, (not misspelled) is the ancient way of saying Erin or Eire.