For more than 1,000 years ago; not as long ago as it seems. #amazonlink to Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems 1988-2013: https://amzn.to/3Oyb3xk from Beowulf / translated from the Old English by Seamus Heaney No counsellor could ever expect fair reparation from those rabid hands. All were endangered; young and old... {important information for you for the #amazonlink: as an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases}
21st-Century Irish Poetry
DPF / Cotter
For the future I’d like to meet in each moment and not know a second ahead of time, from Poetry, October 2016.
from Time Traveler / by Patrick Cotter
Now is before he was born. Days of air
shaken by bees, crow song probing eaves
and quays. Maker of the future a perfect
terra-cotta tense, a tense which sings.
DPF / Heaney
For making metaphor-making look as simple as breathing, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Casualty / by Seamus Heaney
To get out early, haul
Steadily off the bottom,
Dispraise the catch, and smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt
Somewhere, well out, beyond…
DPF / O’Callaghan
For wind and woods and wishes for rain and prayers for those with too much of it, from poetryfoundation.org.
from January Drought / by Conor O’Callaghan
But tonight is buckets of stars as hard and dry as dimes.
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