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12-05-2005, 11:53 AM #2
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Favourite Poem
I like that one too. For some reason I've always had a thing for Limbo, by Seamus Heaney after studying it for AS level.
Fishermen at Ballyshannon
Netted an infant last night
Along with the salmon.
An illegitimate spawning,
A small one thrown back
To the waters. But I'm sure
As she stood in the shallows
Ducking him tenderly
Till the frozen knobs of her wrists
Were dead as the gravel,
He was a minnow with hooks
Tearing her open.
She waded in under
The sign of her cross.
He was hauled in with the fish.
Now limbo will be
A cold glitter of souls
Through some far briny zone.
Even Christs's palms, unhealed,
Smart and cannot fish there.
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