March 17, 2021
IRISH BLESSINGS
to have - as you travel up and down
the roads and twisting paths of this life.
Rock: the presence of hard strength
especially when the waves are crashing
and smashing and hitting your shore.
A Smile: when you’re really happy or you’re
really hurting – like when you feel that others
are talking about you at tea on another table.
The Bog: to give you heat when the foreigners
have cut down all your trees and your sons have left
to mine for coal in far off places like Scranton.
The Tavern: the place to sneak off to for a drop –
and cold butter on Irish soda bread - to sing, to dance,
to listen to the fiddle and to talk to an old friend.
The Celtic Cross: when death has taken away
a spouse or ripped a relationship in two and you’re
all alone and the cemetery is just down the hill.
especially when the waves are crashing
and smashing and hitting your shore.
really hurting – like when you feel that others
are talking about you at tea on another table.
have cut down all your trees and your sons have left
to mine for coal in far off places like Scranton.
and cold butter on Irish soda bread - to sing, to dance,
to listen to the fiddle and to talk to an old friend.
a spouse or ripped a relationship in two and you’re
all alone and the cemetery is just down the hill.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
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