ORNA ROSS

Historical Fiction

Poetry

Go Creative!

Ten More Poems

I'm working hard on finishing the Go Creative! books and on target to launch in September but poems are no respecters of working schedules. They appear when they like it and a few have surfaced recently, demanding to be written. And then to be published. So here we...

Happy Holidays!

I hope you're enjoying a special and happy time over these days. Here is a seasonal poem for you, based on an old Irish mid-winter blessing, that sends you all good wishes.Thank you, as always, for reading — and wishing you and yours the very best for 2013....

Read A Poem A Day

A poem a day is my prescription for a good life.  Everyday language is, as Flaubert once said, “a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to — while we long to make music that will melt the stars”.  Poetry makes of language that melting kind of...

A Week In Words: "Are You?" A New Poem.

    again. Are you not mother? That is the question that must be posed and not just to those who work the world with their pants less stuffed, with their arms held aloft when not wrapped round the chores and the children and, yes, round the big boys too,...

On Borrowed Time

We lie together in a gifted bed knowing the alarm is set to sound, your thighs a seat I'm settled on, mine wrapped warmly round your hand. We burrow in the minutes that remain before the clock will cut in to announce the time has come for us to peel apart. Shall it be...

Poem of The Week

A Ritual To Read To Each Other If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the...