by Leslie de la Haye | Apr 28, 2010 | Poetry
As wind moans soft through whisper trees, No one then heard the maiden’s pleas They’d wrenched her lover from her grip Took him, to a cold prison ship. Then to a place he’d never seen Away from Ireland’s fields so green As convict, he now bore...
by Leslie de la Haye | Apr 28, 2010 | Poetry
Hush now my children, close your sweet little eyes To climb over rainbows, and pink purple skies, Help Snowy the puppy catch farmer Mac’s pigs And laugh as the small Lambs get up to their jigs. Hush now children, sail on a cotton white cloud Make your Mother and...
by Leslie de la Haye | Apr 28, 2010 | Poetry
Soft velvet wrap of night encloses, On the ruby bed of Miss Sunset; With silken glove, as day reposes She rests red hand on horizon west. Then as nature weaves its magic spell, Moon and stars begin to fill the skies, As old daylight tolls its closing bell, And...
by Leslie de la Haye | Apr 28, 2010 | Poetry
Strange dark spirits haunt in my abode, Surreptitious ghosts from days of ode, Their proclivity not even known, Nor ethereal visions have they shown. These interlopers from spirit world, They open doors, and carpets furled, Pernicious is their evil side Through the...
by Leslie de la Haye | Apr 28, 2010 | Poetry
Yet from deep sleep could not wondrous wake Sweet and tender child for pity sake Her dear mind and soul drifts now in space Across her eyes sits a veil of lace. Born then of a Royal King and Queen Beauty, the likes never before seen With silk flaxen hair and eyes of...
