Adil Ireland, PO Box 2052, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Heritages: British

Languages: English

Job: Information Technology

About Me:
I am a sub-editor in the advertising features department of the Manawatu Standard, a daily newspaper in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

I have an online business at http://luckykiwi.com ,
where I am offering cheap websites with free domain names.

Click on the link below to see my ad.
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Anyone who wishes to contact me can do so by going to http://startnz.com and clicking on the "Contact" link at the bottom of the page.

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I have an online book of poems, Unlike Other Boys, at http://poetry.2hell.com .

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Interests:
Writing poems. An example of my work is below:

EL ULTIMO SUSPIRO DEL MORO

Rills that darted tree to tree,
From high sierras to the sea,

Now run at random on the plain,
Their ruin wrought to entertain

The drunken soldiers of Castile,
 Who came to fight and stayed to steal.
 
As lombards boom from battlements,
The fabric of an age is rent:

The flagrant crucifix is set
On fretted dome and minaret,

While in the alcazar there stands
The throne of crafty Ferdinand.

Too late, the fallen sultan sees
The cost of his inconstancy;

Too late, a fixity is forced
Upon his fugitive remorse.

Two leagues away, but still pursued
By strains of shawm and cornemuse,
 
He pauses on a rise to gaze
At symbols of his yesterdays:

Granada still beyond compare,
But now abandoned to despair;

The groves of palms that link this land
With visions of Levantine sands;

The broken fronds that once were spliced
With trailing vines of paradise.


NOTE 1: Lombard: 15th-century cannon. Washington Irving records in his Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada that, "[while] the Moorish cavaliers gazed with a silent agony of tenderness and grief, upon that delicious abode, the scene of their loves and pleasures...a light cloud of smoke burst forth from the citadel; and presently a peal of artillery, faintly heard, told that the city was taken possession of, and the throne of the Moslem kings was lost forever".
 

NOTE 2: Shawm and cornemuse: 15th-century musical instruments.

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