Poetry Corner

I was only looking at this yesterday.

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Been posted already, but this is unreal.

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Heaney is hard bet. His “Digging” is a tour de force.

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Jaysis, that is wonderful.

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I saw him read “When all the others were away at Mass”. I’ll never forget it.

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0503/1295818-poem-of-the-week-dogma-by-john-kelly/

I will arise and go now, into the Gaelic Grounds
To batter those inbred, redneck hillbillies.

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“Be advised.
My passports green,
No glass of ours was ever raised
To toast the Queen.”
Seamus Heaney

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You are my love, my friend, my soul . . . Which makes me feel as hard as a totem pole,”

Id give this a second like if i could.

Think that was meant to be a text @flatty. You’ve accidentaly posted it on tfk.

Who did he intend to send it to?


That’s sensational

“Can’t help thinking pulling you was my greatest ever coo”. … Grrrr….

Like love-struck teenagers. Giggs’ poetic efforts fall well short of his former colleague Cantona who’s profound musings about trawlers remind me somewhat of Patrick Kavanagh ……:wink:

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Cantona was a cool fucker you’d have to say.

Still is, the foddering cap looks manifique on him.

They didn’t call him the Welsh Wizard for nothing