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
- Владимир Корнилов – Музыка для себя
- Yankee Doodle by Vachel Lindsay
- To Sea by Martin Zakovski
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- The Faithless Shadows. poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Омар Хайям – Долго ль спину придется мне гнуть или нет
- When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- The Other Two by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet CXXXVII by William Shakespeare
- America by Robert Creeley
- Николай Тихонов – Ленинград
- For Someone, Somewhere, In Relation by Shaunna Harper
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