Timeless Celtic Night

Timeless Celtic Night


Old moon lights
cold tunes sung on autumn night.
Antique stories drift loftly,
singing softly, ancient plights.

Timeless tales,
sad tellings of past travails.
Fireside songs on the Samhain
troubadour’s tambourine wails.

Folk stories
sung of old tribal mores -
where clan desires turn deadly.
Makes medley of old glories.

Clan acquires
caused family feuds. Then ceasefires
lay to rest sun-drenched conflicts;
let wed benedicts’ desires.

Figures throng,
light incandescent torch song.
Two hearts a glow in chambers -
passion’s embers burn strong, long.

Resplendent
love now met. Oh, how ardent
ancient family vows unarmed.
Unveiled charm magnificent.

Diaspora,
next songs of woeful aura
intoned by Irish tenor.
Lore sung in flamed agora.

Brits moved in
sixteen hundreds, with their kin.
Impious rules innocent,
and fervent brute forces win.

Across bogs
rants religious dialogues.
Gaels thrown out from their house
by greedy grouse demagogues.

Starved by rents,
hollowed, hungry like rodents,
poor Celt farmers rue the year
chieftains’ exile veered events.

Doomed farmhand
reeking crops from bare homeland.
Endless sea with constant wind
rages, fair-skinned clansmen stand.

Looking fore,
until they could take no more;
murderously poor, bereft,
family left for distant shore.

Present night,
we chant music by fire light,
keening where past wrongs belong
in a timeless song tonight.



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Samhain >> “sow-een” Celtic summer's end festival became Halloween.

Written in Rannaicheacht Mhor Gairit ancient Irish form:
a. any number of quatrains.
b. syllabic 3-7-7-7
c. rhyme scheme aaxa, bbxb, etc
d. written with aicill rhyme, (if L3 ends in a 2 syllable word, it rhymes internally in L4.)