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Puck Fair
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Author:  Charlie [ Sat May 18, 2013 7:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Puck Fair
Puck Fair
Co. Kerry
(Where, in August, a wild mountain goat is crowned king)

The goat's tale

"There's magic in the Coolroe-stream, or pucks
weave herb into the browse to make me dream...

In Killorglin town I bowed before a
virgin-queen, who gave a crown to make me
king with vision over everything. Our
match remained unconsummate. For I was
hailed on-high, engaged – though caged – in things of
state. There, phantoms, clad in cap and boot, waved
crooked sticks and mumbled strange in ancient
tongue, then bought and sold the living soul of
sullen ox and horse and colt. And at my
feet, the men danced women down the street, like
spectres borne on haunting notes of lonely
songs that sang of sorrows in the years: how
wanton maids, with torment-eyes, as wild and
green as Lough Lean's isles, and ringlets wrought in
purest gold, like wavelets caught in sunset's
mould, were, by their beauty, thus condemned to
birthing pain and living drudge. While boys, like
bumble bees, beguiled by nectar spilled by
girls, were led along a lane of toil and
grudge...

...Now I wake-up in the glen, running
free of 'Orglin-men, to gambol up the
giddy scree into the cloud where Mother
Earth becomes the sky; and sense a life set
out for me, of butting he and tupping
she. Then see the visions of my dream; hear
the laughing of the stream; and wonder - why?"

Charlie Gregory
1998
Author:  PhilomenaAquitaine [ Sat May 18, 2013 8:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Puck Fair
Oh I love this! Especially this bit:

While boys, like
bumble bees, beguiled by nectar spilled by
girls,
Author:  SMacca [ Sun May 19, 2013 10:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Puck Fair
Welcome to our Land, Charlie! Glad to have you join us :D
I look forward to reading more of your poems/stories
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