Ireland - a Divided Island Part One
...born under the sea, an irresistible force
two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia a...
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Categories:
columba, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Chi - Rho In the Book of Kells
...CHI - RHO IN THE BOOK OF KELLS
A millennium and more since it left the Scottish shore,
Chi -Rho Christ’s name
Swirling in an anaesthetising trance induces
The soul-memory back to a...
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Categories:
columba, bible, history, ireland, religion,
Form: Imagism
Iona
...With your waters so blue,
And your sands a crisp white,
I had never expected,
Quite a delight,
I had come from the mainland,
To this distant isle,
A Hebridean beauty,
A trip so worthwhile,
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Categories:
columba, faith, nature, peace,
Form: Rhyme