Goodbye Ireland

Not receptive, distempered
by loss of sleep and
endless hours on the sea,
I saw her first at Rosslayre.

Rested and refreshed,
I saw her again next morning.
I followed her curves with my eyes
along the coast to Youghal.
It was there I noticed her eyes were blue
and her coat a rich dark green,
dampened with rain.

I saw her then by moonlight at Gallway.
Walked, in love with her, through
the heather at Connemara.
and down, deep, deeper
through the Wicklow Gap
where her beauty caused me worship.

I sang her songs of North and South,
drank her Guinness and her stout
and clapped the Gaelic rhythm
she tapped upon my heart.
In Belfast I wrote my heart's love song.

At Larne, on the last day,
as the wake separated her from me,
as the wake trailed out behind,
I left her -
to the mist
and the rain
and the green fields
and the sea.

My Song To You

There is yet time beneath the stars for love.
The silver moon will come many times again
before the dark side comes to stay.

I will be your love now, forever,
and we will run the meadows and
lie beneath the stars.

And the sea will soothe us while the wind excites us,
and we will sing and share the joy and woe of life
until there is no time.

Within you is a garden of roses and swaying palms.
Take me into you to be the ornament of your fountain,
a cherub of delight.

And you can enter me to find my center too,
high upon a hill above the sea
where the wind swirls.

It is not Time who shall our ruler be
but tender kisses and bold embrace,
and all the while we shall be free.

This I promise you, my love and my delight,
that nothing shall come between us
except the golden light

Biography

A resident of Sausalito, California, Ms. Reuscher has travelled extensively in the U.S. and Canada, Europe and the South Pacific and has lived in England, Switzerland and Greece. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Yale University, she was, for many years, a teacher of English, writing and philosophy.

Ms. Reuscher is the author of In The Hands of an Amateur God, a philosophical novel, as well as numerous short stories and poems. Currently she is working on a stage play and a suspense novel as well as traveller's tales based on her journeys.