Life is a Journey

Poetry Month

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

Craicin’ Good Fun

 Craicin’ Good Fun  by Kim O’Neill

Stepping into a pub

on our nightly adventures,

wall to wall conversations

and World Cup on the screen.

A young gent tells his tales

of music, song and dance,

craic everywhere to be seen.

Guinness and hard cider flow

in harmony with the music,

feet tapping , loud laughing

from local characters and their stories.

A brilliant reel on the fiddle

plays in this busy corner pub.

You can feel in the walls, floors and sounds

the history of a town and its’ glories.

A craic: the combination of gossip, information, artistic performance and, of course, booze that go to make a good night out.

Beautiful Words and Sculpture

A photo I took of a sculpture of Yeat’s poetry at Drumcliffe churchyard, Sligo, Ireland 

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

– William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Vistas from Ireland

We had an adventurous self driven tour of Ireland with our longtime friends, Bob and Pauline, last summer. Pictured above are a few of the stops along the way: The The Cliffs of Moher  located at the southwestern edge in County Clare, Ireland, The Round Tower at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow, Ross Castle in Killarney, and The Lake House Killarney on the lakeshore of Lough Lein, Killarney’s lower lake,

All beautiful places I treasure forever.  Stories of more adventures to come…

A Day in the Clouds