“And like a sunset were her lips,
A stormy sunset on doomed ships;
A citron colour gloomed in her hair,”
From The Wanderings of Oisin: Book One by W. B. Yeats.
Bríg
Where she walks, the roses wind,
And the green grass grows in the meadows lush,
The springs run sweet beneath her tread,
Where she treads light, young men lie dead.
Through red-rimmed eyes they watch her pass
With silent feet in the meadow grass,
As if she alone brought war and want
And fire from the heaven’s vault.
By sunset’s light, in daybreak’s dew,
The grasses broken shoot anew,
And in their cradles, new men clench
Their fists, as if the sun they’d quench.
This is so beautiful 💜
Thank you, Willow 🙂
Oh! This is so beautiful I do like it !!💜💜
Even more 🙂 🙂
My favorite one thus far Jane. Stunning! ❤️
Thank you! I’m glad you like it. Brigid is one of my favourite characters real or imagined 🙂
Kindred Souls…she is one of my patronesses. 😊
None better 🙂
https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/a-month-with-yeats-5/
Here’s mine! I love your poem, Jane, fits the image so well. It feels like a Rosetti poem, something of that ilk and era.
I agree, it does! Maybe it’s the image, too.
This has the lilt of Gaelic about it. The sound track shoule include a mandolin. Most danceable.
For me it would be the uilleann pipes 🙂
Beautiful and haunting, Jane. Here’s my latest!
https://frankjtassone.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/a-tanka-for-a-monh-with-yeats-day-5/
Thank you, Frank!
Not fair. I posted my “sunset” poem yesterday.
“And like a sunset were her lips,
A stormy sunset on doomed ships;” –
The kiss was for me to keep
The hurt was indeed deep
Sunset of our love was forlorn
With a swing of her hips, she was gone
That’s my placeholder till I get back to my desk.
Be thinking on it.
As I cut vegetables for lunch☺
It will get you into a rhythm.
Rhythm is being broken by multitasking. Need to keep my cell phone away.
I won’t disturb you until you’ve hatched your poem.
Happy coincidence, or premonition. You have the swinging hips too. Funny how that image keeps cropping up!
☺☺☺not my hips, I suppose.
I can’t see from here 🙂
Rest assured it’s not a pretty sight.
🙂
I agree with Kat, this one is so richly stunning!! Bravo!
Twice now today, so exciting, here’s me:
https://deuxiemepeau.blog/2017/11/05/sunken-ships-at-sea-day-5-of-a-month-with-yeats/
The poems Willy Yeats has inspired have been so good! I hope he’d be proud of us all.
I agree with Sarah, about the image and your poem.
Thank you. Brigid is one of my favourite people.
The American way:
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2017/11/05/roots-of-darkness/
Not sure what that is, but it doesn’t inspire much confidence.
Oh, I love this, Jane!
We were out all day, so I’m just seeing this prompt now. I may have to save this one.
Save away. There’s no reason for the choice of prompt of the day. It’s random. Reply randomly 🙂
Hahaha. I think I may have to. I have some appointments today and an assignment to finish, too–when you know, I just want to write poetry. 🙂
There aren’t many things I’d rather do either 🙂
🙂
Daylight savings’s demise has me peering from the dark side. Lovely challenge quote. Made me think.
https://katmyrman.com/2017/11/05/good_witch_or/
Daylight saving has the advantage that there’s more morning 🙂
Very true…I find I don’t even need an alarm clock, waking well ahead of schedule. 😊
I like to look at the morning from bed. With the shutters open I can see the field and the trees without having to get out of the warm 🙂
Sounds Heavenly! 😊
It would be if I didn’t have to get up in the cold!
Jane, it became a long lunch☺, sorry, I mean long day. Posting my poem shortlink below with swinging hips and all.
https://wp.me/p73yZZ-3Kk
I love those swinging hips. Men have the same technique, it just comes over as a cowboy waddle.
☺☺My eyes seek things of beauty only.
Can’t say I find the cowboy waddle attractive either 🙂
☺☺☺
Jane, your poem is so beautiful that I was forced to post the other side of the coin☹
That is your privilege. I wouldn’t dream of interfering 🙂
Thanks. I feel liberated.
🙂
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
🙂
have a lovely week, Jane 🙂
https://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/a-month-with-yeats-day-five/
Thanks Lady Lee 🙂 You too!