Donegal

about what it is

A line of stones;

the threat of so much space,

a fallen horizon.

Salt grass

coarse with rain,

nights heavy with tides

and the battered steel

of the sea, the broken gong

of the moon, strange friends.

Then, I knew not what to call

the rough curves of peat,

slight of the sea

a bodhran wind over the rocks.

When I am no more,

let me melt in the rain

of this cold coast,

its own name shaped,

the seagull`s call. 

Reviews

[africa]

Good and clapping. Thank yous

[Tina Kline]

Your words create a powerful picture of a storm tossed sea. I love the ocean and going to the beach and taking long walks. Every beach has its own character and personality. A fantastic poem.

[Coyote Song]

Very descriptive, your words bring this to life and for each reader brings to mind some place they've known. I enjoyed this very much.

[Leslie Philibert]

Thanks for the kind words, credit indeed from someone like you who has such a great feeling for landscape.

[Coyote Song]

You are very welcome.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i love this...reminds me of what i have set as a wish when i pass...i want my ashes put either in a pasture in ryegate VT. or thrown into Tickle Naked Pond in Ryegate...and old indian lake where we used to swim and fish back in the seventies...

you brought me back there with this...wanting to be one with nature when we meet our fate.

[Leslie Philibert]

Thanks for the kind words. Many years ago I spent a week in Donegal. The roughness of the land impress me to this day, it is the end of the World.

[Ken Simm.]

Now this you know I'm ging to enjoy Leslie. full of such descriptive phrases. I am particularly taken with Bodhran wind. That is only one of many.

[Leslie Philibert]

I was there many years ago. Perhaps a perfect place to return to. Thanks for the kind words !

[Valentine]

This is so beautiful. It brings to mind a place I saw in a film long ago. Valentine

[Leslie Philibert]

Hallo Valentine, thanks for the kind words, and best wishes.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I can visualise the rough cold coast and the waves in your words here Leslie. This has shades of Heaney all over it including the peat!

[Leslie Philibert]

Hallo John, my thanks, and my best wishes, pleased you looked at this.