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Irish Round Towers

A cethramtu rannaigechta moire poem

Sylvia Wohlfarth
Literary Impulse
May 6, 2024

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Photograph of a round tower in an Irish graveyard
Image by Paul Bates from Pixabay

What beauty
is in grey
upon green
within May

Under blue
and the white
in the warmth
of sunlight

Our shadows
ramble low
betwixt gorse
and hedgerow

We repose
on these days
to absorb
the sun’s rays

Alongside
stone towers
surrounded
by flowers

Tall they stand
redundant
ancient, cold
and gallant

A comfort,
sadly left
resolute
and bereft.

Thank you, Somsubhra Banerjee, for inviting me to take up your prompt, Unusual Poetic Forms. No surprise I chose the Irish one.

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Sylvia Wohlfarth
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An Irish-Nigerian soul living in Ireland after 40 years in Germany. A social anthropologist, English teacher, and more. With stories to share; and an opinion…

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