Going Home to a Place You've Never Been
A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the emotional return to Ireland of the child of Irish immigrants. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Elegy. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
So I'm the Patron Saint of Ireland
A St. Patrick’s Day poem about St. Patrick as a former Englishman. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: English Country Garden. By Aaron Kenny. Music free to use at YouTube.
So Let It Go, That Mythic Ireland
A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the changing ethnic composition of Ireland. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Vanity Reprise. By Text Me Records/Leviathe. Music free to use at YouTube.
Sing of Ireland, That Salad Bowl
A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the inevitable passing of the Ireland of old. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Borderless. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
Millennia Ago, the Jews Were Slaves
A poem for Martin Luther King’s birthday about the need to embrace even a past of slavery and torture: Millennia ago, the Jews were slaves, And they never forgot it, nor should we. Remembrance of things past is how one saves The lineage of one's identity