The petals swing
To my fingering
Is it you, or you, or you?
Tender only to one
I do not know his name
And the friends who fall
To the petals’ call
May think my love to blame.
Tender only to one
This petal holds a clue
The face it shows
But too well knows
Who I am tender to.
Tender only to one,
Last petal’s latest breath
Cries out aloud
From the icy shroud
His name, his name is Death.
The nearly rightAnd yet not quiteIn love is wholly evilAnd every heartThat loves in partIs mortgaged to the devilI loved or thoughtI loved in sortWas this to love akin?To take the bestAnd leave the restAnd let the devil in?O lovers trueAnd others tooWhose best is only betterTake my adviceShun compromiseForget him and forget her
Wife and family?No,He never suffered such a blow.Did he feel pointless, feeble and distrait,Unwanted by everyone and in the way?From his cradle he was purposeful,His bent strong and his mind full.Did he love people very muchYet find them die one day?He did not love in the human way.Did he ask how long it would go…
With footsteps so discreetTo see her passYou’d never guessShe walked upon the street.Down where the Liffey waters’ turgid floodChurns up to greet the ocean-driven mud,A bruiser in fixMurdered her for 6/6.
This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.Airy, in an airy manner in an airy parkland walking,Others take him by the hand, lead him, do the talking.But the Form, the airy One, frowns an airy frown,What they say he knows must be, but he looks aloofly down,Looks aloofly at…
He jumped into a taxi when he saw me coming,Leaving my alone with a private meaning,He loves me so much, my heart is singing.Later at the Club when I rang him in the eveningThey said: Sir Rat is dining, is dining, is dining,No madam, he left no messafe, ah how his silence speaks,He loves me…
As of the presence of God, I am sureIn the dustbins, in the manure, in the cat at play,Is the presence of God, in a sure wayHe moves there. Mother, what do you say?I too have felt the presence of God in the broomI hold, in the cobwebs in the room,But most of all in…
