After Yeats and Heaney

After Yeats and Heaney,
you wonder when the new one
will come galloping 

out of Dublin or perhaps 
from yet another farm
but you won’t know

until you read the lines
and hear the music by someone 
you have never heard of.

If no one else is around
you’ll shout to the sleeping cat,  
here’s the new one!

and then sit back and listen 
to the words roll out, knowing  
a new world has been found.


Donal Mahoney
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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