by Orna Ross | Dec 26, 2021 | Poetry |
I write and publish my poetry first on Instagram. Then on Sundays, I post the poem that received most likes or comments here on my blog. Below is my most popular Instagram poem this week, “Long Light”. It's a short one–worth reading twice. LONG LIGHT...
by Orna Ross | Dec 23, 2021 | Fiction |
In researching the prologue to my Yeats-Gonne series, which is told from the point of view of the fathers of WB Yeats and Maud Gonne, I came across the above black-and white-print by JB Yeats, sold at Whytes Gallery auction recently. It fetched €6,400, which is rather...
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...