Masquerade Me

By E.M McConnell

This is the seventh poetry collection from the poet, E.M. McConnell. Masquerade Me takes you on a journey through masks, roles and ideas. Who are we under the masks? What did we leave behind? Then we step back into myth and idea, with Magic Me, packed with poetry about Druidry, Paganism and the soul. Morph Me then looks at how we have been changed, how love impacts us, and how we as people create sparks, inspiration and longing, as we pass through our lives. Finally, Mellow Me, is poetry about the quiet moments in life, the moments that make us smile, sing, and sigh.

• Language: English
• Publisher: E.M.McConnell
• Release date: Oct 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215561270

E.M McConnell

Eryn was born and raised in Oxford, UK but nowadays lives in South Germany with their young family. They have a great dream to travel and visit all the great mountains and lakes of the world. They are a qualified History and English teacher, working freelance with international students.  They write both poetry books and fantasy stories. They have a particular passion for mythology and dragons!  They have been writing poetry since they were 16, including Middle-Earth fan poetry that has appeared in the Tolkien Society’s publication, the Amon Hen. They have also appeared in the Music Anthology from the Sweety Cat Press.  In addition to writing poetry they study with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids to be a druid, and are working on two fantasy series. One of  which appears to involve steampunk, sky pirates, astral travel and lots of dragons, and the other has a more dystopian bent.  If you want to see more of their writing you can find them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ErynMcConnell.Writer/  Instagram www.instagram.com/erynmcconnellwriter  And Twitter too https://www.twitter.com/mcconnelleryn 

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Masquerade Me

E. M. McConnell

Copyright © 2023 by Eryn McConnell

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The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask

Agatha Christie

"The closing years of life are like the end

of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

Cesare Pavese

Works by the Author

Of Swans and Stars

Love Lost and Found

Cinquains

Acrostic

PTSD is a 4 Letter Word

Haiku

Death By Sugar

Contents

Introduction

1.Masquerade Me

2.Masquerade Me

3.Webs

4.Masquerade Party

5.A Frame That Isn’t Me

6.Removing A Mask

7.Fata Organa

8.Be A Poet For Me

9.Last Call

10.Denial

11.Underneath

12.Reciprocal Feelings

13.Artificial

Magic Me

14.Magic Me

15.Weave

16.The Crows Circle

17.The Fairies Dance

18.Ash Dragon

19.Imbolc

20.Snow Swirling

21.Darkest Night (Alban Arthan, or Yule)

22.Manannan Mac Lir

23.Spirit Animal

24.Traffic Light Witch

25.Fox

26.Watery Things

27.Blood Moon

28.The Trees

29.Renaissance Dragon

Morph Me

30.Against the Grain

31.Distance

32.Dissect

33.Music

34.I Press You Into Pages

35.The Quiet Of The Night

36.The Woman

37.And What Now, Then?

38.Chasing The Wind

39.A Hand In The Dark

40.Hope

41.Anecdoche

42.Promises

43.Procrastination

44.Clarity

45.Viraha

46.Embellish

47.Name

48.Bandaged Eyes

49.Chrysalis

Mellow Me

50.Mellow Me 

51.Macarism 

52.Time to Think

53.Schwarzwald

54.Cloud Mood

55.New Mexico

56.I Want

57.On Growing

58.Peace

59.Aubade

60.Ambedo

61.A Grey Day

62.Delicious

63.Universe

64.Piano

65.Grey

About The Poet

Introduction

This collection started out as a mish-mash of epic proportions. It felt as if it all belonged together but I couldn’t see rhyme or reason to it. And then I wrote the Masquerade poems, and I started to see the theme emerge. Masks are fundamental in this collection, of the masks that we wear, of the masks other people wear. It’s about what we do to survive, how we grow.

There are four sections to this book so I decided to get alliterative and use the M words just to be all fancy.

Masquerade Me is about the masks that we wear and how we fool each other, even when we want a connection and to be seen.

Magic Me is simply the magic in our lives. What makes us pause, and look at life in a different way? It changes us too, when the world shines on us that way.

Morph Me is about how we change and what affects us. It’s those small events that seem insignificant but their arrival brings slow change within us and later we look back and think, oh, yes. It was a big event after all.

Mellow Me is the nice parts of us, the events that round us off, fill us up with hope and peace. 

There are a lot of