Two poems from Ithel Colquhoun

The Grimoire collection was published in 1973 by Ore Publications of Stevenage. The poems form part of a series of some 22 poems - the 13 Celtic tree months and the nine yearly festivals. They are interleaved by Colquhoun drawings.

Duir

June 10th - July 8th

Mysterious coppice of saplings
bent from the west

And Oaks of Eden in level grassy
Meath

With those of greater girth called
Gog and Magog

Under the towering shadow of the
Glass Mount

Forgive me that I forgot your
timely libation !

I was drinking from a golden bowl
of light

I was bathing in a diamond spray
of sea -

Do not strike with your lightning-

rod but stand

Robust, a wand enduring in my
hand

IMBOLC

February 2nd

The celandine's array of
chryolite

Calls out with vibrant tongue
St.Brigid's praise

And oyster catchers, where her
grown lambs graze

Along the strand, proclaim her
earliest light

With covens of sharp cries.
Bride-sheperdess

Revealed in them and in the
celandines

Their zig-zag wing your territory
defines

Who wear the yellow flowers like
a dress