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| Leading to the past; leading to the future |
(work in progress...)
Stories from an Irish Bay
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| The Bay |
Mirror boats on glittering tide
jagged staithes on long sea-legs
fluttering in the shining water
Bay goes back to sea war status -
Spaniard does for English sea lord
Punching ship with high-placed cannon
Further on to hungry people
boats in pawn, nets laid down
starving families eating seaweed
First the green upon the tide
then resort to slimy sea stuff
not unlike the bad potato
Then tipped into early graves -
clap -board coffins, open-ended
used and re-used many times
Setting out on crowded vessels
for a far and foreign country -
even to a Texas
homeland
Here a woman out of Texas
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face a map of life well lived -
happy now to fly her Cessna
in the skies
above
the
tide
Inspired by :
Me - Just Sitting by the Bay
John Minihan's Cork Introduced by William Trevor
The Irish Country House Peter Somerville Large
The Coast of West Cork Peter Somerville Large
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