by Orna Ross | Dec 19, 2021 | Poetry |
My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Into Ease” My darling, let’s not sigh to see day fade, the earth receive the sun, the light recede. Let us, with sky and trees, dim to dusk mood, fall deep, and deep, and deeper into ease. When hands and...
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...