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Heaney Poems - Poems about Heaney

Premium Member 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. ......

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Categories: heaney, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Heaney
...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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Categories: heaney, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew



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 s......

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Categories: heaney, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
The Crowning Glory
...He keeps himself confined, to bluster now, and remonstrate the struggle being more than he can bear. Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from the sweat of his own making to a glimpse of the immo......

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Categories: heaney, writing,
Form: Verse
From Dark To Black
......inspired by 'Goodnight' by Seamus Heaney From dark to black they staggered, felt for familiar surfaces, they groped, until the lantern flickered, faint glow resurrecting shadows. Cold......

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Categories: heaney, writing,
Form: Quatrain



Twilight
......inspired by 'Fireside' by Seamus Heaney Flashlight tracings trap and dazzle, dancing in the twilight. Children hurry through the meadow, flip-flops flapping, eager beavers chasing dreams. ......

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Categories: heaney, kids,
Form: Verse
From Dark To Black
......inspired by 'Goodnight' by Seamus Heaney From dark to black they staggered, felt for familiar surfaces, they groped until the lantern flickered, faint glow resurrecting shadows. Cold and ......

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Categories: heaney, writing,
Form: Quatrain
All Aboard
......inspired by 'The Railway Children' by Seamus Heaney Memories as sharp as diamonds, keen as knives, the smell of train smoke burns my nostrils still. Chilly mornings, misty, magic, gleaming ......

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Categories: heaney, adventure, children,
Form: Verse
The Crowning Glory
...He keeps himself confined, to bluster now, and remonstrate the struggle being more than he can bear. Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from the sweat of his own making to a glimpse of the immo......

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Categories: heaney, art,
Form: Verse
The Crowning Glory
......inspired by 'An Artist' by Seamus Heaney He keeps himself confined, to bluster now, and remonstrate the struggle being more than he can bear. Pieces of him pulverized, fashioned from the ......

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Categories: heaney, tribute, writing,
Form: Verse
From Dark To Black
......inspired by 'Goodnight' by Seamus Heaney From dark to black they staggered, felt for familiar surfaces, they groped, until the lantern flickered, faint glow resurrecting shadows. Cold and......

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Categories: heaney, tribute, writing,
Form: Quatrain
A Dry Stone Wall Near Coleraine
...(for Seamus Heaney) as if the pale stones share the warmth between two sides sea and field cut early light and full morning the path weathered and slow......

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Categories: heaney, death, dedication,
Form: Elegy
Opportunity
...What an opportunity. A blank piece of paper. I am a poem, I can fill this white void, My words will spill over the page. Will they tumble with joy or sorrow? Will I make you laugh or cry - perha......

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Categories: heaney, poetry, writing,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Heaney Ekphrasis -Recited
...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 i......

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Categories: heaney, poets,
Form: Ekphrasis
For Life and Death of a Poet
...Poets in literal meaning are not responsive to normative rules of dying moreover just like the Saints they do not fit into a written conventions of the existence of the survival at all ......

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Categories: heaney, death, dedication, poets,
Form: Epitaph

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