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There is a sort of warm detachment about this week's poem, from Gene Barry of Co Cork Ireland, that makes it unique.
The intellectual elements of thought and speculation are finely balanced on the sensuous side of history, mythology, astronomy and romance.
It is a poem that tickles the speculative mind and begs to be read over and over again.
Eas na Machan
I studied your handsome face
As you posed on that noble rock
That seemed to hold you
Like its only child and fell
As powerfully as Mahon himself,
In love with you.
Cuam Machan eloquently
Dressed your background
While Mercury cast her
Black Drop that landed
On us both;
Our hearts were making history.
Our tropospheric protector
Belched down a multitude of
Words that dovetailed
This captured moment.
I read them as they
Found their home.
I walked with you
Digit to digit and as I did
I borrowed unborn children
To line the pockets of our future
And prayed for the strength
Of a Comeragh mountain.
© Gene Barry
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