Hidden Doorways and Small Escapes

By Magi Discoe

This is a book of poems, poems gathered from a long life of experiences. Poems include large day to day concerns such as growing old, friends dying to the small daily observations such as the first hints of light in the morning, the futile efforts of a pair of geese attacking cars as they whizz by their nest. Some are poems about the gods and how it might be to be "beloved of Zeus". Many of the poems are about the struggle of self and the ego. It is a truly eclectic collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098382872

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Cover Photo: Romany McNamara

©2021 Magi Discoe. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

ISBN (Print): 978-1-09838-286-5

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-09838-287-2

The poet who overcharges for a poem shall be

stripped of half his rank in society.

From Brehon Law, 6th century

Table of Contents

Borrowed Babies

The Miraculous Hotel

Autumn

Chum

The Interpreter

Learning to Dance

Salmon Girl

Music at School

Wild Plums

Time

Early Morning Awakening at Vedanta Retreat

The Nature of Geese

Relief from Stillness

Farewell Two Arms

On the Death of Our Friend

The Ninth Fish

Seagulls

Winter Poem

Pictures

Beloved of Zeus

Helleborus

Banging on the Doorway of Compassion

The Moon and the Sea

Waiting

June 4, 1979

Wolf Boy

Love Poem

The Puppet Master

The Night Rower

Throwing Pebbles Down a Well

Prayer to Ease Dying

Comments on Poems

Borrowed Babies

A sacred day.

A new being exists.

The infinite elects the finite.

And, choosing form,

she embraces the

snare.

Emerging from soft darkness, she lifts her

sleepy lids and enters the wondrous,

painful light.

Eyes open, she divides the

shadows, splinters the