Showing posts with label Seamus Heaney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seamus Heaney. Show all posts

30 August 2010

Look at the world through heaven's eyes

Walk on air against your better judgment.
--Seamus Heaney

21 April 2010

Song

I am sorry I have been so lax about posting for national poetry month.  Here is something from (in my opinion) one of the greatest living poets:

A rowan like a lipsticked girl.
Between the by-road and the main road
Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance
Stand off among the rushes. 
There are the mud-flowers of dialect
And the immortelles of perfect pitch
And that moment when the bird sings very close
To the music of what happens.