by Orna Ross | Dec 12, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “The Scribe in the Wood” Continuing my series of adapted old Irish poems. This one was developed from a quatrain in Kuno Meyer’s book, Ancient Irish Poetry. It uses a twist on what in traditional Irish poetry...
by Orna Ross | Dec 5, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “The Hermit's Song” Early Gaelic (a.k.a. Old Irish) is the form of Gaelic used in Ireland and parts of Scotland from roughly 600–900 AD. A 9th century manuscript of The Hermit's Song in old Irish was...
by Orna Ross | Nov 28, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” Here we have it, an urn’s future and present and past a picture performance in three parts in a well-funded gallery of the arts. 1. Ai Wei Wei holds the urn Between the hands of...
by Orna Ross | Sep 19, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Milky Way” Her feet in the early morning light are whiter than milk. Bones visible. Wrinkles, veins, a light dusting of hair on shin. Fearful feet, now. Thin, papery skin. Staying in. Swift feet, feet that...
by Orna Ross | Aug 29, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Followings” Creatives grope through the dark drawn by the promise of dawn our way lit by the stars who smile on our stumbles know why we seek and love what our searching creates. To receive exclusive...