i.m. Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013
The Blackbird is no more
In sweet Glanmore
And yet still
The songs he sang
Sing on and echo
Rebounding and redoubling
Far beyond the Wicklow Hills
Mossbawn to Moscow
Navan, Nullarbor
In Athens, Ashford and Athy
The song is heard
Trilling, growing, soaring.
Listen.
Martin Swords is a member of Wicklow Writers Group, and is published in Lifelines New and Collected, Voyages, and Anniversary - anthologies celebrating ten years of Wicklow Writers. You can find out more about him on his blog, and read about the Wicklow writers group here.
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