Tag: wicklow
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Scratching away the present
Rivers Slaney, Dargle and Vartry, throw a dart One cannot fail to hit some place of great sanctity and grace To live in such a dappled, wondrous place, its friendly denizens are grateful Here the wilds show us what Ireland is capable of being, with a cape of green A Goddess like a queen with…
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South Wicklow in wintertime
Road between Woodenbridge and Avoca magical in the snow Red kites like pinioned hieroglyphs gliding in antient triumph by peerless cliffs Fog like liquid fills up the dips, out from which flit bats and linnets in Spring O’er mine-pocked hills, where once Wicklow miners traced shim’ring rilles As grille and grid the moon’s half-hid facade…
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Inducing a mood
Extinguish the guiding lights All sense of the divine, and of science Revert to ruder times Imbue your savage lines with a primal jaggedness, and worrying ice Write by night using the right’s wicked companion Until the desk wax slick, the wick low Ride by night across Wicklow Darkness thick and sticky, never slow Write…
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Dose (South Wicklow)
Quick slow Into the jacks for a quick go of that snow makes talk slick Let’s talk links, let’s get around a table to talk and think Arguing harder than Mick Lynch With a spliff taking two hits Two digs for a yellow reg, two more for flinching I’m in my comfy chair gripping the…
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