A Fusion Of Green

Independence from oppression is a vital modern right.

I thought that I heard you cry

bitter tears

as you fell

onto your knees,

as he forced himself

through your tightly guarded

corridors, lifting you

high above the battlements

and throwing you

to that little death,

impaling your sallow soft breasts

upon the boulders of Blackrock Cove.

 

There the salty Irish sea

washed out your empty

eyes, taking the colour

green for itself,

as whitecaps raging

in frothy injustice

over such ripe rape,

rushed back to shore.

 

And we sang a dirge,

a sad lament for

too many broken Celtic bodies

washed up on foreign beaches

after the imperial jackboots

had crushed sovereign bones

to dust.

 

So now is our time,

we must unite.

The top and the bottom

must be combined again

in glory, as all true

and loyal souls offer fealty

to this Emerald Isle.

 

02/06/19

Author's Note

Reviews

[kentuck14]

Indeed my Irish heritage perks up at this poem. Why didn't the Scots vote for independence?!
T

[John Alexander McFadyen]

The reason the majority did not vote for independence for Scotland is in two parts; there are those 'Unionists who are affiliated with Irish Unionism and who will wage war to maintain the unions. Then there are the ordinary people who were lied to with simple everyday matters, such as theu would lose the BBC and hence their favourite 'soap' operas, that our tax would rise substantially and we could not afford to run our own country. And that was for starters. Many thanks for your interest and comments Tom.

[Cherrie]

bones and dust make for a poor garden, but the will to change can and will change everything.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed ic can Cherrie and I for one hope it does. Many thanks.

[Cherrie]

If we could learn to love our neighbor and see beyond generational limits. To lay down the them and those, to find common ground.

[Chris Shaw]

A call to the Celts to unite. So that must be Scotland, Wales. Ireland and I think even Cornwall. It's the bloody English again getting to ya. Independence from England but not the EU many think. That's where you took me. Maybe well out, in that case I'll blame the red wine. Good write though.

Chris

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ah but leaving the EU for England is good and for Scotland better as it gives more power to the call for independance and the whole back stop debacle callks for a united Ireland. The Welsh (my grandmother was one) can sink or swim. Thanks Chris,