Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 Jun 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Olympian flame—
What heights I climbed to know her,
Clouds in my blue eyes.
 Jun 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Man ends planet— quick,
Dinos last millions of years,
Birds are dinosaurs.
 Jun 2013
Seán Mac Falls
There is a sun,
Brighter than your face shining.
There is a sky,
Deeper than your blue eyes.
There is a Moon,
Lights up the day that's dying,

Chorus:
What would you say—
If I should leave you crying?
What would you say—
If I should leave?
Should I leave you crying?

There is a cloud,
Why must you be so proud, my dream?
There is a sea,
Why must it be we're drowning?
There is a place,
Where we can be, both towering,

Chorus:
What would you say— If I should leave you?
There is a light— Why won't you see?

There is a dream,
If you believe as I do.
There is a way,
To keep the Sun behind you.
There is a love,
Truer than light that binds you,

What would you say?
There is a light that finds you,
There is a light that finds you.
 May 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Snow capped mountains,
Bald flights of soaring eagle,
Dual forms Godhead.
 May 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Sun snuffed in cloud days,
Sloe black crows perishing grey,
  .  .  .  Dirge plays in silence.
 May 2013
Akshay
I saw you today
under a bright sunless sky.

You,
bathed in green,
by a demure waterfall.

And you
moving
to the peacocks' calls
trilling,
through the leaves
that enshrined our midst.

You moved without care,
and you knew I was there.
Dhrupad is a very old musical form in Indian classical music. I wrote this poem when I was attending a Hindustani classical violin recital. I was transported to another world, and was missing a dear friend who loves classical music. She entered my imagination later, as is her wont.
 May 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Driveway of grave stones,
Army of orange poppies—
  .  .  .  Little flags victorious.
 May 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Rain wells in soft eyes,
Droplets drib by the windows,
My lips on her cheek.
 May 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Morning never waits—
Ripples spreading on still pond,
Before frog jumps in.
 May 2013
Seán Mac Falls
My hands are raw and cracked like wind and wood,
My arms, they sway and dance all day in my boat,
My neck is sore from watching you, above me play,
You, great mountains of tree and stone, give me hope.
 May 2013
Seán Mac Falls
Seashells and castles,
Imagination, holy as the skies,
Sea sprayed our faces.
Next page