Best Heaney Poems

In recognition of the Nobel Poet Laureat Seamus Heaney,
who a few minutes before he left this world last Friday
echoed the Words of the King before He rose from this earth;
NOLI TIMERE....... DO NOT BE AFRAID.
Thank you for that much needed reminder of  Christ's own...

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A HEANEY EKPHRASIS
Lyrical in beauty,dug from
the depths of the past.
A storyteller, articulate in
elegaic stanza writing words
to last.Of farm life and childhood, 
deep in Irish  terra firma in 
which he and his poetry stood.
A delightful imagist quality 
of 'as is moments' once 
frozen in memory,and...

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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...

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Ulster poet Seamus Heaney
ever a favourite with me
In which nostalgic childhood shines through
to become a Nobel winner too...

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