Best Dingle Poems
Twas New Year’s Eve down in the Dingle
Elves and goblins began to mingle
With the gnomes and sprites
In tinselly tights
Each one claiming that they are single
Gnome-made punch from wild mushroom and berry
Made the goblins unusually merry
Then the elves and sprites
Got as high as kites
And on top of each tree was a fairy
New day dawns down in Dingley Dell
End of old era told by a knell
Head gnome issues a call
“Health and happiness: all”
“But for God’s sake stop ringing that bell!”
I’ll tell ye now of the lovely Selkie,
She married Dingle man Cagans
For a short span of time, then returned to the sea.
Near Kerry’s land of goblins
He found her drowning in his net one day
With his strong hand he saved her life
And took her Selkie's skin away,
He wanted her for wife,
The man then married this seal-woman
She’d be his true lover
She become human and shed her seal skin,
His love had won her over
Oh boys, but her true home was the sea,
The waves and tides of the Bay
She’d leave if the chance came to be free
But, faithful girl, she stayed.
Cagans one windy winter morn -
In his nets trapped far from shore -
The end, he feared. But then he mourned
The loss of his darling more.
His cries like waves broke in her ears:
She changed back to seal-form
Then she swam right fast and quelled his fears,
And he was saved from harm.
Says she, “ I’ve lost our home and bed
But I’ll always swim near you.”
“Then I never will sail from Dingle,” he said,
“But swim out each day with you.“
And every day they were seen in the bay
On the sea or near the shore,
A-catching fish and always at play
Till one day they were no more. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . Now, a dolphin’s come to Dingle Bay
Fungie’s made it his home.
He’s never left us, but decided to stay,
Never more to roam.
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NOTE
Dingle Bay is famous for a young bottlenosed dolphin which appeared at the mouth of Dingle Harbour in 1984. In Dingle they say it is Cagans swimming always. Christened "Fungie" by the local fishermen, the dolphin rarely ventures far from the mouth of the harbor, a fact that has baffled scientists and specialists. A simple explanation given is that at the time of his arrival, the body of a young female bottlenose was washed up locally. Dolphins are thought to show great fidelity in their relationships, and may only have one mate for life. Dingle is also famous as the location for three movies: RYAN’S DAUGHTER 1969, FAR AND AWAY 1992, THE FIELD 1993.
The Dingle
Now pleasures few
past contentment knew
the Summer walks
of childhood
Another World
where visions hurled
and little child's veins
electric
Those hazy days
grass carpets lay
wild garlic scents at play
Sharp pebble streams
recalled in dreams
as we wander from the way
Lets sit again
under tents of trees
to ponder bumble bee's
Let memories chase
a magical place
the spirit of
The Dingle
Form:
Dingle, Ireland
The bathroom carpet,
wall to wall, is blue,
the lightest blue,
to complement
the bowl and ceiling.
Apropos the moment:
I bend the waist
and heave the gristle
from last evening's steak.
Tomorrow I shall row again
to see those ancient men
in caps and coveralls
stand like statues
while they talk
and tap gold embers
now and then
from clay pipes
forever glowing.
I'll go there
at the dinner hour
and see them once again
fork potatoes,
whole and steaming,
from big kettles filled
at dawn by crones
forever kerchiefed
and forever bent.
At dawn you hear
the women
like a choir
sing their hymns
a cappella
as they genuflect and dip
big black kettles
in the sometimes still
sometimes foaming sea.
Donal Mahoney
We observe
We gasp in anticipation
What is this, a chicken bone, a Ferrari, a bee? Why do they even belong here?
Revelation flashes by like a cottage cheese comment
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! I do learn much Karma Kreulu.
Form:
You've trained for years
make a living slinging a metal ball into the air
earned your way into the Olympics
fed in part by charity,,,
just to perch upon a podium of malcontent
crap on the flag that held your dreams aloft
like a magic carpet above the fires of life
while you raise your ungrateful fist..
You don't represent anything but hate,,,
I'll be rooting for the communist.