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Edited by Anthony Dooley, Friday, 30 Aug 2013, 12:07

Poet gone home y'all...back into the whirl and spin of the whirling whirlds....

 

 

Seamus Heaney...POET

 

TOLLUND MAN

Naked except for
The cap, noose and girdle,
I will stand a long time.
Bridegroom to the goddess,

She tightened her torc on him
And opened her fen,
Those dark juices working
Him to a saint's kept body,

Trove of the turfcutters'
Honeycombed workings.
Now his stained face
Reposes at Aarhus.


II


I could risk blasphemy,
Consecrate the cauldron bog
Our holy ground and pray
Him to make germinate

The scattered, ambushed
Flesh of labourers,
Stockinged corpses
Laid out in the farmyards,

Tell-tale skin and teeth
Flecking the sleepers
Of four young brothers, trailed
For miles along the lines.

III


Something of his sad freedom
As he rode the tumbril
Should come to me, driving,
Saying the names

Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard,

Watching the pointing hands
Of country people,
Not knowing their tongue.

Out here in Jutland
In the old man-killing parishes
I will feel lost,
Unhappy and at home.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23895582

 

And i will pick up his last words

polish them as I polished his others

And i will place them into my word-hoard and use them again and again...for words

like souls

do not ever fall from use nor go away..

 

And i will make a pen from his bones

and from his ash make ink

and I will write his blessing

from scar to star 

 

 

and they will sing his name from one end of time to the other

and the creator will smile when he hears the spacewinds speak his name

 

For Mr. Seamus Heaney...POET

 

 

Some people just were'nt bred to say anything....ay Max!

 

 

wink

 

 

 

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