Weaver of Dreams
Weaver of dreams – such magic
you have wrought upon your loom.
Deft fingers coaxing delicate threads
into the fabric of the soul.
The warp and weft spans
the longitude and latitude
of this world.
You place your work at our feet
on the mysterious threshold
of the universe.
Your workshop in the constellations,
your lamp, the hallowed moon.
Between the Sheets
She caught a falling sycamore leaf
put it in my book,
between Frost and Ginsberg.
Months later I found it –
A raised palm,
insisting that I stop
to remember.
Its veins, lifelines,
showing where our paths diverged.
An Abandoned Farmhouse
On an early morning stroll
I wandered around a warren of
byways and boreens.
Ditches flanked with fuchsia
bracken and montbretia.
I came upon an abandoned farmhouse –
The kind I drew with crayons at school.
Two-up, two-down, a door
symmetrically centred.
My drawings always had a scroll
of blue-grey, turf-smoke ascending
from its chimney
to a pillow of angelic cloud
and a picket fence around a garden
with flowers.
This abandoned farmhouse had
four-paned, sash windows and
wavy glass, with its distortions
and imperfections.
The slated roof, caved in.
Ivy snaking around its gable end.
The garden overgrown with briars.
A half-acre of blighted potato drills
like waves on a lake, frozen in time –
Contours of a hidden history.
I imagined a horse-pulled plough and harrow,
between the hawthorn hedgerows,
with ricks of hay in summer.
And I wondered if its former occupants
were amongst the lucky ones
who made it to America
or if their bones are buried
amongst the famine dead.
Kieran Beville is an Irish author, poet, and journalist. He is the author of Write Now – A Guide to Becoming a Writer (Limerick Writers Centre, 2019). Beville has had a substantial number of poems and articles published in various newspapers, journals, and magazines. He has also published five collections of poetry (Revival Press).
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