Farewell and An Irish Saturday Night Drinking Song

"A Farewell" is beautiful. I think the beauty is in the comparision between, the good, the bad and the ugly. For example,

You would look lovely in a cascade of sweat and pear scent,
I would play the part of the broken hearted misanthrope,
sweating and reeking of smoke and sadness.

This set of lines is wonderful:

You were nothing but color that long day,
incandescently, strikingly, unnaturally gorgeous,
a brilliant plumage of greens and blues

Two more of my favorite lines:

the grasses of the park waving their hands behind you.
I burned the palaces of your beauty down


"Drinking Song"

This was soo much fun, and really reminded me of my grandfatherand his old drinking buddy's when i was a little girl. Ha. the stories each of them had and how they just get to together to get wasted and forget their problems, so realistic. The repeated chorus tied it up and made the image of these singing drunk irish men stand so much stronger in my mind. Well done.