Irish Poet: Irishy Litany

i

Honest green
Irishy soul.
Broguish voice.
Irishy minded.

ii

One man––reading a poem
Is
Many timeless lives,
Or simply,
One life...

iii

The poem is the wish
Of one man
Deeply wishing––

And many souls––
Thirsty for home
Pleading for peace.

For Seamus Heaney