Nature Ireland Poems

Leave it all behind. There’s no room for your baggage,
but your togs, towel and the factor 50 promise.
Sail the roads west.

Teenage freedom is in the...

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In The meadow 

Wait ‘til the sun has cooled
And taken it’s familiar place
In the summer sky, in linen white,
Cut below the knee, you float
Across the...

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Embracing the countryside 
Made some ecstatic and glee 
But one feature in particular 
Was that old coniferous tree

‘Conifer,’ a Latin word
Means one that bears a...

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The wind takes an eardrum,
and fills it with hail.

The waves crash beyond me
on an unbeaten trail.

There are men here who think
they’ve found victory and wealth,

but...

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Going wild about Clare 

     Where hills lay barren, and bedrock’s stripped bare
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what land is this that I have stepped into

a forest dreamscape bejeweled in blues and greens
it's springtime bathed in sunrays
cooled in freshness of the morning...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Wildflowers sleeping late on dewy days
Rather than traveling on mountaintops
Two flowers embrace in harmony
Cognizant of nature's patrimony
Thankful for the few good years that remain
Their love...

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The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations

The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the...

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In the Irish mountain "Breasts of Anu" I reside.
I am mother goddess, the spirit essence of nature.
Anu or Danu my worshipers call me with pride.
Dana...

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“Irish I am,” my mam speaks in hushed tones to the air
She questions still, seeming to her alone
Intones, “Ireland, O Ireland, what are you?
Where do...

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A Poem For May.

As autumn shade's fall softly upon the ground and cloud's 
Melt away as the sun drift's down. Colour's burst into light 
and...

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born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time...

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surfing
up and down
green Irish hills

celtic
dragon’s breath
hot on its trail



AP: 2nd place 2020

Submitted on October 13, 2018 for contest CHARLIEKU 4-3-2 sponsored by CHARLES MESSINA ...

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