Sea Ireland Poems

Colour me perfect in green white and gold, 
A tricolour heart from the young to the old,
A land of giants from the causeway to swift,
A...

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 High 
looking 
at the sea,
waves knocking them,
the Cliffs of Moher 
beyond the years, 
face future
being
tall

...

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Ireland

Who
cares for
fair Eire
that emerald
isle across the sea?
Upon Cape Breton’s shore
I stand and wish for to be
a Leprechaun with a shamrock
whilst expressing my love for Ireland
whence...

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Goodbye to the leprechauns
goodbye clover carpets of green
I will cross many a deep blue sea
 to a wide sunshine land, just for me.

I have my...

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[super sonnet]

My folks are from Magilligan, it's said—
a stretch of windy green beside the sea,
where, from the rocky bluffs, a quilt is spread
of emerald grass,...

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I've never been to Ireland—
never seen the patchwork landscape
spreading, green, through a hazy sunlight.
Gray oceans crashing on rocky shores,
craggy mountains climbing
toward billowing skies—
I have never...

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they
      fought a
              millienium
to be free
from 
...

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I hope you are by my side,
 Every day and every time, today
Cause you can barely see the sky so clean!
I was thinkin’ of you...

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Fisherman's Luck 

The rocks brushed by the waves, 
caressed and embraced by the ocean, 
slowly wearing down the land, 
to be carried away in pieces
back...

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From Rhegeds lofty peaks 
spied sailing over Erins sea 
pirates raiding from Innesfail 
white sails catching the prevailing wind 
as if flying them over the...

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from island corner, big Antrim lad
  to Belfast city, a tiny pad
  shattered windows, tilted clocks
  Goliath had lost his socks
 ...

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These old paths of mine still dear to me 
Lead through the woods to the timeless sea 
Bringing back life's bittersweet memories 
As I walk...

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Erin Go Bragh 

At Ben Bulben’s feet Sligo stands,
The home of such creative hands
Where poet William Yeats did grow.
The Nobel Prize his poems did know.

On...

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Without doubt a small isle but one of natural beauty
Such a tranquil green place, the Isle of Innisfree
Set in Irelands Lough Gill in the County...

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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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