Showing posts with label The Pale Lady of the Well. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

The Pale Lady of the Well - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

The Pale Lady of the Well

 

I am mostly English, which is now uncool

And my soupcon of West African genes

Along with a whiff of Russia and First Nations

Protest Northumbria and East Anglia

 

But when outside at dusk with poetry and pipe

And a whisper of single-malt offered to the earth

Sometimes I seem to see visions proper to a Celt

And hear soft songs from the dawn of time

 

How is it that an Englishman can still

Sense the White Lady near the well at dusk