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 Let Them Be, Who Have Had Sex with Children
A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the greater guilt of those in charge of abusive priests. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Chariots of War. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
Self Becomes Less Self the More Self-Served
A philosophical St. Patrick’s Day poem about the self as part of a greater whole. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Wandering Soul. 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.
Selves Are Quite the Opposite of Souls
A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the difference between one’s self and one’s soul. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Renaissance Castle. By Doug Maxwell. 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.
Saints Are Rarely Saints, if You Know What I Mean
A St. Patrick’s Day poem about the humanity of saints. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: No.6 In My Dreams. By Esther Abrami. Music free to use at YouTube.
Souls and Selves Are Organ Tones and Tunes
A psychological poem for St. Patrick’s Day about the relationship between souls and selves: Souls and selves are organ tones and tunes. The soul is deep, unchanging, it abides. Placed in time, but not of time, it rides Above the silence, alike in graves