Deianeira-Day Wishes
after Nicanor Parra
1.
Bathing
in the baptism
of her chosen water
her golden carriage
stands unhitched
beside a sea
so clear
it captures
the moonbeams.
At morn time
this alpine mirrored water
will wash her world clean,
but not her sin,
it has all come to this.
11.
The widowed Queen
has absolved herself
restored her mind.
From now on
she will be a High Priestess,
wear her tiara
of faithfulness to herself.
111.
Become more like the man
she caused to die,
her sword cannot redact,
or she would choose to undo it all.
Allow him
to bring that girl
to the concubine.
O love’s despair.
She would take back
her own slyness,
that jealous rage,
the tunic
with poisoned blood
she gave herald Lichas
to give to Hercules to wear.
Her black heart killed him,
Hercules
her love,
that son of Zeus,
the demi-god.
1V.
Hercules
believed the blood-soaked tunic
a gift from her
and put it on himself.
She chooses now
to recall his battle
with Blue Serpent,
that great epic win.
She remembers
the princess she was
when first she encountered Hercules.
How beautiful she was,
he had told her so.
How he had saved her
from the virgin sacrifice
to the water god, Hydra.
Indeed, she was glad.
Or, when trojan runners
sought his help
for the citizens of Troy
those banished away to Hera.
V.
When, her father
King Ilus died,
the defeat
of the Blue Cult
was real,
finished.
Over with.
Then her hour
and her crowning,
Queen of Troy
on their wedding ceremony.
Those celebration days.
The games.
The fun.
Her love so strong.
V1.
Now,
as a Priestess,
second in line to no one,
she would honour
the memory of Hercules.
He will be her Divine One.
No other.
This she chooses.
The Raven and The Wolf
Beyond the horizon, beyond the beyond
Where the veil thins out
Crows and Ravens talk about
medieval battle grounds.
Great Queen Morrigan swiftly glides
in either’d sky above
the frozen ground that resists
the wolves hungered cries.
The Raven cleaves on the cadaver
unites with the frozen kill
pecks away the scab.
The wolf eats its fill.
Margaret Kiernan writes fiction, non-fiction essay, memoir, and poetry. She has had poetry and prose published in e-book, in anthology collections, and literary journals and magazines - including, Black-lion Press, Pendemic.ie journal-C19 collection , archived at University College Dublin, The Blue Nib Lit-Journal , The Write Life Magazine, Unity Global Festival, Vox Galvia at the Galway Advertiser, A New Ulster Literary Press, The Burrow Lit. Journal, Poet-Head.Wordpress.com, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Galway Review and The Irish Canadian Cultural Newsmagazine, New Brunswick. Nominated for Best of the Net in 2021.
She writes with Over the Edge, Thursday writing/reading group at Galway Arts Centre, and, Ox Mountain Poets, Sligo.
She is listed in the Index of Contemporary Women Poets in Ireland, 2020.
She holds several Educational qualifications, Including a Degree in Arts in Humanities, from Sligo IT.
Her background is in Advocacy in Human and Social Rights.
Margaret has completed numerous courses and workshops in writing, for prose and poetry.
Tutors in poetry includes, Annemarie Ni Churainn, Martin Dyer, Colm Keegan, Monica Corish, Moyra Donaldson, Noel Monahan, Kevin Higgins.
Tutors in prose includes, Claire Allan, Anne McMaster, Conor Kostick, Carlo Gebler, Malacai O’Doherty, Jan Carson, Ciara Doorley.
Margaret has four grown-up children. She lives in Westmeath with her dog Molly. She is a landscape painter. Is into Nature, walking, gardening, music, and heritage. She is working towards a First collection in Poetry.
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