poetic series
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series: princess taína & prince connell’s wild atlantic love 2 river’s bank by Àm Acevedo princess taína wades in water-kisses by her river’s bank. from innisfree, connell, your poet’s whispers pour: “i hear it in the deep heart’s core,” where her image leaves an everlasting brand as her eyes foreshadow the caribbean poet’s chant: the world
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series: princess taína & prince connell’s wild atlantic love 1 cross the emerald isle by Àm Acevedo cross the emerald isle once more, my corracloona prince and leitrim lord. easterlies will sail you –connell– to her river’s ford. but first, wage your loving war against the ocean’s roars, that you may proudly disembark upon her
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emerald isle or emerald: Ireland corracloona: a townland in County Leitrim, Ireland kiltyclogher: a small village in County Leitrim, Ireland leitrim: County Leitrim, Ireland connell or prince connell: a reference to Prince Connell (Irish, County Leitrim folklore). In this poem, he is buried at Prince Connell’s Grave. prince connell’s grave: a megalithic monument in Corracloona,
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Over the next week (and some), I’ll be sharing with you a series of poems I wrote that means a lot to me. The reason for this poetic affection is that it’s a series about my two favorite Atlantic islands: Puerto Rico & Ireland. I titled the series “princess taína & prince connell’s wild atlantic
Àm Acevedo 