She Stole My Stars…

Published by Mary Kennelly at March 12, 2024

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She hovered, talons poised, with an easy skill and practiced eye,
always ready to peck the stars from out my sky.
She stopped to pluck the tender notes from every melody
and cawed discordant words into my each attempt at poetry.
She tore my wings; she pinned me to the ground.
She poured her song into my thoughts, smothering every other sound.
I believed for years that I was well away,
but decades taught me that I was still her prey.
Her voice, in me, has blighted all the truths I sought to know,
so it seems, as I’ve never managed to forget, I must learn, somehow, to let go.

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Mary Kennelly

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Her previous books include; ‘Sunny Spells, Scattered Showers’, Carroll R. & Kennelly M. Glenwood Press, 2004, ‘From the Stones’, Fitzmaurice B. & Kennelly M. Evensong Publications, 2010, ‘Catching Bats Takes Patience’, Kennelly M. Liberties Press, 2015, ‘Splinters’, Fitzmaurice B. & Kennelly M. Evensong Publications, 2017, ‘Into the Grey’, Kennelly M. Evensong Publications, 2022. Her work has appeared in several collections and anthologies and Mary has been published in newspapers, magazines and e-zines. She has edited several publications. She lives by the advice given by her grandfather, “Take it easy, and if you can’t take it easy, take it as easy as you can.”

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