To The Irish Poets

They are all gone now,
Heaney, Mahon and Longley
the last to go.
Their words speak 
to these troubled times
with a lasting humanity.
Thanks be 
to poetry's Irish trinity.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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February 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Lovely poem Paul…I haven't read any of them but l may do! Hope alls well my friend! Debx
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