Haar’s stealth bestirs, around isles of my leaving
where I now levant, on long termed way.
But I‘ll return, to that birth of my meaning
redound from a choice, of my living foray.
With hetaerae acharné set on its venture
into a world, that man has decreed.
For what be life tied, to incumbent tenure
or denied a foison, or need to succeed.
To travel far, o’er land’s schismatic nature
see Elysium’s triumph encompassed so.
Who could blame me, to sire, love in such rapture?
tarry parture’s scene, to where I must go.
Yet I’ll return, to that land of my making
where, I first knew those assays of joy.
For a heart’s omphalos cries in its aching
to rejoin such wonders, through eyes of a boy.
Mor.
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Reviews of "The Leaving and its Longings. Taken from the Highland Series."
This sad, but superb, poem befits many a Scotsman who left his country for the many Commonwealths, only lucky if he were to return for hard work and death overcame him.
I too, long to go back to the place of my birth, a very pastoral and quiet scene. Unfortunately, I can no longer take harsh winters and isolation I would feel living there year-round.
Wow! If poetry be the stuff of magic, charm, beauty, intrigue, and longing then you've cornered the market. And you've done it with class. This is superb. Many thanks!
The journey changes us in subtle ways we do not always divine Mor. The land we leave in our travels may not always be the place we remember from our youth. The mem'ry, more than the location are what makes us yearn. The place that I grew up in makes me yearn to see it myself. But that was an area with miles of farmland and woods that a boy could play in all day. Now it's miles of shopping centers and restaurants. I could not live there, or thrive there. Only die there. Excellent rhyme scheme and a great read as usual. Bob
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
I too, long to go back to the place of my birth, a very pastoral and quiet scene. Unfortunately, I can no longer take harsh winters and isolation I would feel living there year-round.
Ron