{"id":91,"date":"2015-05-18T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2018-09-22T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T18:58:56","slug":"ireland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-130 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clearicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"339\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 36pt;\">Ireland<\/span><\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><u>CONTENTS<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#1\">Tonight I Fear<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#2\">Upon Ireland&#8217;s Turf I Pray to Stand<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#3\">A\u00a0Leprechaun&#8217;s Lie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#4\">Three American Kings<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#5\">King of the Land<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#6\">The Green of My Land<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#7\">Love Flows Freely of the Irish Heart (Ireland Conceived)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#8\">The Red Rose of Texas (Ireland\u2019s Red Rose)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\"><a href=\"#9\">Eyes Strain to See<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Tonight I Fear<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Tonight I fear, I fear this night may be my last, it seems I know this fear well,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Long ago before I had yet expressed my love I feared war would ring the final bell,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So many fears I have inside of fear itself as I fear when my time will come,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It isn&#8217;t for me I fear, but I worry for your fate in my departure my little special one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As we place footprints in the sand I look behind to see where we have been,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I look into the past and as I speak I sound like one of old with &#8220;way back when,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Reflections in the mirror tell a tale of age that has come and passed me by,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I look at your eternal beauty and wonder why I look like such a worn out guy,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Twenty years ago I feared time would expire before I proved my love to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Life&#8217;s penalty is sometimes guilt and I must say I carry guilt for a thing or two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Did I show you my love the way I should? Please tell me if you feel I did,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When they lay me in the cold dark earth I pray you never feel my love was hid,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And again I fear, yes I have so much fear each time I hold you will be my last,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It seems my time is a coming &#8217;round, I fear time is coming far too fast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Perhaps it&#8217;ll come on a fine pleasant day when I have worked hard all day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let me say now how sorry I am that I didn&#8217;t find a way for us to finally play,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">We did have fun at times as we traveled alone with no others along,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Time alone with you brought clarity to every beautiful Irish love song,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As we walked the shores of Ireland&#8217;s west I saw heaven again in your eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And I fear, I fear you won&#8217;t know how much I love you when my flame dies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, I love you Patti<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"2\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Upon Ireland&#8217;s Turf I Pray to Stand<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A river of time flows within the Shannon carrying minutes crashing through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I have been ravaged by time and the things I was once made to do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am blessed to return to the beauty of Ireland and for a while feel renewed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I write these words of love for her but to another it&#8217;s differently construed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I love to stand upon her turf and absorb the smell of citizen&#8217;s burning peat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Formerly a given to dig the turf but a right the powers managed to defeat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s a true turf war yet the idea of conservation of our land is correct,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Conserve this beautiful isle that my grandchildren can return to connect,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">She is an emerald, no doubt, when viewed from the heavens high above,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Though time never tires, Ireland has managed to keep her children&#8217;s love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To be Irish is a gift of enormous history in knowing your roots and kin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Then when returning to be welcomed with love no matter where you&#8217;ve been,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The children of this land have produced priest and teachers of God&#8217;s word,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Listen for a while and across the land the same message is to be heard,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">They are united in their love of land and unite to help each one in need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So many from many parts of the world take pride to be of Irish breed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And so flows time yet the homes of our father&#8217;s fathers still stand to be seen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The roots and wisdom of their father&#8217;s experiences keep their choices keen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The fingers of time stretch far through the land never allowing retreat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From the shelter of my mother&#8217;s womb time&#8217;s destiny is to always defeat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It places importance deep in my heart for the love of this beautiful isle,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How does the soul and heart unite to express such love for every mile?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The kinship with each soul upon their land, the man and land has a kinship, too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Hardships endured have united each in a way understood by too few,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Rainbows are actually anchored in the gold of the leprechaun&#8217;s pot,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Only the leprechaun or rainbow can move this pot from its original spot,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Lore and truth are so interlaced that they both must carry fortune and gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No more beautiful place is upon earth to search for the gold from a story told,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Perhaps rainbows are manufactured at the hands of fairies and such,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Visitors feel it too while in Ireland everything seems to have a magical touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Gold also may be the mystical creation of a leprechaun&#8217;s little magic hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Maybe through time they have traveled the world leaving gold on each land,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Only in Ireland can the moon touch your heart in such a way as heaven above,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">While in Ireland never lay waste of a moment while in the arms of true love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The rains fall to present the rainbow as it fades from downpour to sun,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Only in Ireland can such a transition from rain to shine be quickly done,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So many unsolved mysteries are found upon this soil, Bigfoot too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The leprechaun mystery is real and perhaps in dimension two,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">But brotherhood, sisterhood, love of kin and the willingness to share,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My true love stands at my side but a part of my heart remains over there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, by Pat<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_234\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ireland-ufo.jpg\" alt=\"Ireland UFO take by Patti, 2006\" width=\"740\" height=\"556\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Alice; color: #000000;\">Irish sunset with UFO,\u00a0taken by Patti in April of 2006<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a name=\"3\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">A Leprechaun&#8217;s Lie<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A leprechaun&#8217;s lie is a horrible lie a terrible thing indeed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To hide my pot of gold I told a tale of a magical Irish seed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Would grow, you see, to very large proportion if you hungered so,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Or, let&#8217;s say your petrol low, it&#8217;ll provide fuel where&#8217;s ever you go,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It was a story or was it a yarn I spun to save me precious Irish gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Think for a moment if you will, I&#8217;m so small it&#8217;s not a large pot to hold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Yet, it&#8217;s me gold you see, it&#8217;s all I have and means the world to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And, yes, it&#8217;s a beautiful gold in lumps and coins so pretty to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I spun it well, telling of many and how they survived the potato blight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A leprechaun&#8217;s story if told well will hold you long into the night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If given the chance and I bore you to tears or hold you spellbound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">At a moment&#8217;s notice you&#8217;ll see me butt and a hard running sound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">This magical seed only a lucky few Irish have known to hold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Is more precious to many because with patience it&#8217;ll grow gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Medicine to cure a hard night&#8217;s drink is found in the magic plant,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A bit on yourself and the beautiful lass won&#8217;t say no or can&#8217;t,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Medicine for cure of so many things from broken bones to killing pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Reach out you hand to accept my magic seeds but me gold must remain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Then suddenly I was off in a flash when from nowhere I&#8217;m hit by a car,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Yelling you&#8217;ll be fine I swear, she poured those damned seed from the jar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, by Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"4\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Three American Kings<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I see so many things in clouds when I pray to Him,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Sadly I must admit most times it is done on a whim,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In an Irish sunset one beautiful evening with you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I gave thanks to be with you sharing the golden hue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A rarity came that birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Blankets of snow covered Ireland; the trees were iced,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Crystal palaces of nature&#8217;s choosing for our King,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">An angel from heaven shared the view wearing my ring,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Upon this land a gift was given three American Kings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A white Christmas so rare it&#8217;s the rarest of things,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To be with foreign family whose roots are so strong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharing worship to Him and sing a Christmas song,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Deep in my heart I gave thanks to be loved by her and them,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">But more important I gave thanks we were saved by Him,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Most of the time my feet are firm and level on the ground,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Tears fell that Christmas in thanks as they gathered round,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The gift given me that none others could fully understand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I once again slipped a ring upon my beautiful bride&#8217;s hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The clouds seemed to say He&#8217;s happy to share with you today,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To love my angel for over forty married years is His way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">King of the Land<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The Kings had gathered round to celebrate one of their own,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">He, the eldest of fourteen, had been the successor of the throne,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">An honor so given by death, yet so unwanted by the holder,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Should said man be honored, he queried, because he&#8217;s the elder,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Still reeling from the day&#8217;s events I have reviewed in my head,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Never had I expected to see all the family united until I was dead,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">At this moment in time my wealth of life events rivaled gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To see all gathered in happiness to touch, kiss or just to hold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As I looked around the room at the faces of so many years gone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I realized how fragile each person in the room is yet so strong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Gathered round me I could see in each my father and my mother,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How proud they&#8217;d be to see all gathered round to honor their brother,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The strength of my father is seen so strong in each one there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Mama&#8217;s kind heart and tenderness so evident in how they care,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Also I prayed a prayer of thanks that through it all most are well,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Though I felt poor of health today, I&#8217;m excited for this rhyme to tell,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My heart was moved so to see them gathered as a group again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s important they realize time&#8217;s passage is a contest they can&#8217;t win,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">This time I prayed the Lord to lift any burden they hold in their heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">That frailties of heart and mind have comfort that healing may start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Pray Lord that each may have a life as wonderful as mine has been,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">That they may feel the joy I felt today through lifetime and again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If only someday each could go home to our Irish home across the sea,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So they could meet their other family that has given so much to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Next to me she was there, my queen and organizer of today&#8217;s event,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Sweet Patti, I know it was hard especially how the past days were spent,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Susan and James took part, I know, in making this day in whole or part,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The book of our history together touched my soul and moved my heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I married an angel it is seen by the photographs in that history book,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Never has a man been so blessed as I on the day her hand I took,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In the past I&#8217;ve said I searched for happiness then found her at my side,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To engrave my headstone as Patti&#8217;s husband would fill me with pride,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon my time will draw to an end when all may unite once again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Though I have suffered, please know how wonderful my life has been,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Of all my birthdays this is the best just to again touch each hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">After sixty five years I was actually, for a day, King of the land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"6\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">The Green of My Land<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There&#8217;s a full moon hanging across the green of my land tonight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I look upon her memory and love her in return with all my might,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I feel right in her grasp even though my age denies my dance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Only Ireland&#8217;s breath is felt by Irishmen and leprechauns by chance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She is alive with love carried in the hearts of those she birthed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Wake up, I cry, to all ye departing with her gold ye have unearthed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Heavy am I tonight as memories of the exodus take its toll,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Was the famine part of chance or was it Satan&#8217;s evil roll,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Listen to the banshee cry in lonely anguish for those buried afar,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many of our brothers and sisters are buried under a foreign star,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">How can a small Emerald Isle produce such brilliance untouched,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many used for labor while the glow of their soul is diminished,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The beauty of the land is within the soul of each as they departed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many returned feeling beaten in spirit and deeply broken hearted,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To ye all, you have friends in all the right places right here at home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Never let loose her hand as she presents you to brothers and gnome,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">New York City wouldn&#8217;t stand without Boston&#8217;s Irish labor near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Explain the disparity to demean The Mick yet hold Irish blood dear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Come home, I cry, to all ye Irish, be you flesh, pixie or loved Irish Leprechaun,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Bring home the gold to replenish our soil before flesh and love is gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"7\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">Love Flows Freely of the Irish Heart (Ireland Conceived)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I stepped from the plane and knew I had returned to the homeland,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">They had rushed away from her green turf, arm in arm, hand in hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It seemed my worth tripled in value just because of where I stood,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To my mother I had promised for so long to go home if only I could,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The gentle touch of my mother&#8217;s hand was felt once more inside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As I looked around at the landscape my Irish heart filled with pride,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Never have I known such love of land though I was born so far away,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Conceived here to be born in a promised land called the U.S. A.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The angel at my side has declared allegiance to this land I love so,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My sweet Irish angel clings to my side, as we travel she&#8217;s aglow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I would never have known a love as strong as this without Irish blood,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many suffered at home brought by the plight of a rotting spud,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I look across her green mountains with the sky so close I can touch blue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Songs from the heart such as the &#8220;Rose of Tralee&#8221; are sung so true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">John Wayne walked tall with Irish pride to tell of Sean&#8217;s love for Mary Kate,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Love flows freely from wild Irish hearts but the drink makes him late,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The ocean is filled with Irish teardrops from crossings so long ago,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">How many children of those departed have returned willing to show,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Our mothers departing regrets are long forgotten by those left behind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The roots of Ireland will forever be engrained in the Irish heart and mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The end, by Pat<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"8\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Sacramento;\">The Red Rose of Texas (Ireland\u2019s Red Rose)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;ve got words trapped within my drugged and exhausted mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If only the words could surface somehow it would be a poetic find,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I know there are words of journeys afar that you and I will one day take,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">No doubt a photographic wonderland so beautiful you never take a break,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In a place this beautiful there must be a place reserved for only you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For you are the most beautiful rose this old rose thorn ever knew,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many varieties of Passion flower that grow like bush and vines,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In a place so wonderful there must also be all types of passion wines,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In a place with passion wine there must be places where lovers meet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So little has been said of passion wine but I&#8217;ve heard it&#8217;s aroma is sweet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let me take your hand, my angel, and we will walk the paths of this land,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There is nothing better for my health than a long walk holding your hand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let me take you soon on a lover&#8217;s journey to a place where flowers grow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">We may find a rose so beautiful that no botanist or scientist will know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I&#8217;d name that rose the Patti Rose after the rarest beauty I have seen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Appropriately named for you, a special rose of beauty and velvet sheen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">We will have a sample freeze dried, to encapsulate in a resin that&#8217;s pure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">This rose\u00a0 must compare to your beauty and it must have your sweet allure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As we walk the paths of this land so far away there&#8217;s more for us to discover,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">You and I have walked these paths before as we found mysteries to uncover,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">No doubt I describe to you an island you and I have visited before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It is of my mother&#8217;s homeland and my ancestors we&#8217;ve come to adore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Ireland is a beautiful land that can&#8217;t be described in one word or rhyme,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If I wrote enough poems of beauty I may find way if given the time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Although Ireland is beautiful it has no place to compare to the beauty of you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each time I whisper &#8220;you&#8217;re beautiful&#8221; in your ear,\u00a0 know my words are true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I find the red rose the most beautiful flower that God placed for us to view,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If asked who is the most beautiful woman I know I would yell out it&#8217;s you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Soon we will journey again to this land we both love so very much,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">There is something magical in this land as it increases feel and touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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