Epic
by Patrick Kavanagh
I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided, who owned
That half a rood of rock, a no-man’s land
Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.
I heard the Duffys shouting “Damn your soul”
And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seen
Step the plot defying blue cast-steel—
“Here is the march along these iron stones”
That was the year of the Munich bother. Which
Was more important? I inclined
To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin
Til Homer’s ghost came whispering to my mind
He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Masks poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше буржуи о производстве думали… (РОСТА №792)
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk
- Changing Of The Seasons by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снова печь барахлит, тут рублей не жалей
- After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Татуировка
- The Beggars by Sylvia Plath
- The Welshnut Tree by William Barnes
- Waking at 3 a.m. by William Stafford
- Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Корнилов – Надежда
- Destiny Far Away
- A Question by Robert Frost
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