by Orna Ross | Jul 15, 2018 | Poetry |
Promise me, that when the leaves turn in the wind or in the falling, you’ll remember. And smile at the day we spent under the green ocean dome that welled above, each leaf-shake a flutter held, a quark of forest time shifting and regrouping, but yet the whole —the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 8, 2018 | Poetry |
Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Dark Night As creative entrepreneurs, we're doers by definition. But sometimes, when things get hard it's not about doing, it's about lying low and doing nothing. Not even thinking. This is a poem for the days when things get hard....
by Orna Ross | Jun 24, 2018 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Lines Written On A Seat, a poem composed while sitting beside the famous statue of the Irish poet, Patrick Kavanagh, by the canal in Dublin. I'm inspired by creativity in all corners of the world but especially in nature, most...
by Orna Ross | Jun 22, 2018 | Poetry |
Reading and writing haiku is a practice, it brings us into creative presence. And that's the intention of this guide about how to write haiku. “Haiku happen all the time,” says Bill Higginson, who wrote The Haiku Handbook, another book about how to write haiku, these...
by Orna Ross | May 15, 2018 | Poetry |
People power is rocking poetry, taking it out into the streets and pubs and festivals and providing a new kind of patronage for poets. In the past, only wealthy benefactors could afford to support poets and under that system, the poet had to commemorate the patron's...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2018 | Poetry |
This week's inspirational poetry: Queen of Queens. My mother's name is Brigid, named as almost every Irish person used to be, after a saint. And today is Brigid's day, one of the most important days of the year. Imbolc in Gaelic, after the Celtic tradition: the first...