This Poem was Submitted By: Mell W. Morris On Date: 2003-05-04 16:15:47 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Thistle in the Wind

  You and Seamus at Queen's   University, lounging at a table,   Colloquies and logomachies   Occurring. You penned panegyric   Poetry about textured soils,   Eskers, coulees, and shingles   Of your homeland. Your beloved   Irish country oft seen through   A grey blanket of rain.   When the rain flapped past like   A sheet left on a clothesline,   Both of you noted each sunset   Of mauve sky deepening to a wash   Of cinnamon then aubergine. You   Wrote about the wood pigeon's   Concerto for oboe and strings   And Seamus, gulls at the pier   Like attendant acolytes.   You wrote of the hunger of Monarchs   For milkweed and Seamus, the hunger   Of frogspawn clabber in clotted water.   Your poetry dealt with your blood-   Soaked land, ages of violence,   And the hunger of your people during   The blight. You've soul-sung us,   Boyo, an Irish tune, allegro, and I   Sing your praises in raised, ringing,   Off-key alto.  

Copyright © May 2003 Mell W. Morris

Additional Notes:
A salute to Paul Muldoon upon winning the 2003 Pulitzer for poetry.


This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2003-12-11 14:32:32
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.03279
Mell, THIS is the one. A jewel. I love this poem! One for the TPL Hall of Fame. Mark


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