Thank you so much, Nathan Woods and J.Z. I am so happy to have my poem pass through the beautiful silver door. The immortal Anglo Irish poet William Butler Yeats is a most revered poet, LIFELONG CHERISHED for me. And to also honor my friend, the late Belgian Irish poet and playwright MARTIN BURKE in your silver pages makes me weep for joy.. I believe Martin Burke was of all contemporary poets of his time the one most directly in the line of Yeats though Martin had other influences and confluences as well. And his own mythology to contend with. Gone too soon, dear Martin. If you look for the poet Martin Burke online with the words Irish Belgian poet you will find a great deal of his work. Particularly through Lapwing Press who offers PDFS of much of his work.
Thank you so much, Nathan. Amazing coincidence. There is a beautiful book he published (he did publish many poetry books and plays with several outlets) entitled Easter Ballad. I went to look it up and something truly mystically coincidental happened. You published my poem in honor to him as well as Yeats ON THE SAME DAY HE RELEASED HIS BOOK EASTER BALLAD. WHICH WAS ON APRIL 4TH 2007, 17 YEARS AGO TO THE INSTANT. I have to think there is some kind of heavenly meaning in that. Please look into his book entitled Easter Ballad. It is still being published today on Amazon. I also want to mention his lovely wife Marianne. She was a great comfort and joy to him. Please keep her in your prayers. I never really met either one of them except online. Martin published several poems of mine by invitation in his journal called the green door (another coincidence). He just happened to bump into my blog site by accidnet several years ago. Before he died he had started another journal called The Ghent Review and he let me publish there too. If he were still here on earth I feel like he would have wanted so much to be part of the Silver Door. There are definite affinities there between your work, J.Z. Schaefer's work and Martin Burke's work. Who knows maybe he is one of the communion of the saints helping to guide your silver ship along. Martin died I believe in 2017. Originally he studied for the priethood then found his way to happiness with Marianne. He is indeed part Irish and part Belgian. He collaborated a lot with the great Belgian artist Kari Bart I think that is his name as well. He was mystical, madcap, deeply sober, drunk on beauty and rooted in the earth. So many good things a poet and playwright should be. He even founded his own theatre company. And he loved also Walt Whitman. He read in a truly lilting and affecting voice. This I know from youtube. Sadly I cannot find a short art film he was able to make depicting one of his poems on youtube. It seems to have been taken down. He was a dreamer who tried to train himself to be a realist in my opinion, but being a true lyrical poet he kind of failed at realism. Thank God he did. Poets like him are rare.
Thank you so much, Nathan Woods and J.Z. I am so happy to have my poem pass through the beautiful silver door. The immortal Anglo Irish poet William Butler Yeats is a most revered poet, LIFELONG CHERISHED for me. And to also honor my friend, the late Belgian Irish poet and playwright MARTIN BURKE in your silver pages makes me weep for joy.. I believe Martin Burke was of all contemporary poets of his time the one most directly in the line of Yeats though Martin had other influences and confluences as well. And his own mythology to contend with. Gone too soon, dear Martin. If you look for the poet Martin Burke online with the words Irish Belgian poet you will find a great deal of his work. Particularly through Lapwing Press who offers PDFS of much of his work.
Thank you for all your work, Mary. It is an honor to publish you on Silver Door.
I will read your friend Martin!
Thank you so much, Nathan. Amazing coincidence. There is a beautiful book he published (he did publish many poetry books and plays with several outlets) entitled Easter Ballad. I went to look it up and something truly mystically coincidental happened. You published my poem in honor to him as well as Yeats ON THE SAME DAY HE RELEASED HIS BOOK EASTER BALLAD. WHICH WAS ON APRIL 4TH 2007, 17 YEARS AGO TO THE INSTANT. I have to think there is some kind of heavenly meaning in that. Please look into his book entitled Easter Ballad. It is still being published today on Amazon. I also want to mention his lovely wife Marianne. She was a great comfort and joy to him. Please keep her in your prayers. I never really met either one of them except online. Martin published several poems of mine by invitation in his journal called the green door (another coincidence). He just happened to bump into my blog site by accidnet several years ago. Before he died he had started another journal called The Ghent Review and he let me publish there too. If he were still here on earth I feel like he would have wanted so much to be part of the Silver Door. There are definite affinities there between your work, J.Z. Schaefer's work and Martin Burke's work. Who knows maybe he is one of the communion of the saints helping to guide your silver ship along. Martin died I believe in 2017. Originally he studied for the priethood then found his way to happiness with Marianne. He is indeed part Irish and part Belgian. He collaborated a lot with the great Belgian artist Kari Bart I think that is his name as well. He was mystical, madcap, deeply sober, drunk on beauty and rooted in the earth. So many good things a poet and playwright should be. He even founded his own theatre company. And he loved also Walt Whitman. He read in a truly lilting and affecting voice. This I know from youtube. Sadly I cannot find a short art film he was able to make depicting one of his poems on youtube. It seems to have been taken down. He was a dreamer who tried to train himself to be a realist in my opinion, but being a true lyrical poet he kind of failed at realism. Thank God he did. Poets like him are rare.
NATHAN HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF HIS POETRY PUBLISHED AT ONE POINT IN THE GALWAY REVIEW. ST. MATTHEW'S PASSION: https://thegalwayreview.com/2014/01/07/martin-burke-the-st-mathew-passion/
Thank you for sharing this, these words are beautiful and took me on a wonderful journey.
I think Mary is the Emily Dickinson of our age.