ballads

september

A poem by Aisling | 9/6/2006

mist hangs suspended
bewitching, elusive
drifts over the soybean field
reaching up from the neighbor’s lake
reaching, rising
a breath from a soul

the moon is a mirror
a sliver less than full
a mirror of your inside
warmth, wildness, wonder
and room to grow

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The Ballade of the Mother

A poem by Aisling | 1/26/2005

(All right, this piece is really long, but it's partly because of the very quickly-flowing way it's written, with often only one word to a line. So please don't be intimidated by its length and give up on it...)

I
The song of the birds
she’s trying to pray
silently loving God
then the light
and the angel’s form becoming visible

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