Johnat Dillon

Johnat Dillon lives in Clonlara, Co. Limerick and has published a number of collections, among them Mixed Bag.

POEM

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POEM FOR A SWAN 

A crying lonely

seagul sings mute!

Last of the summer swallows,

The dance of black death

in a strange

cloudy sky.

Rivers the slow streams

funeral rhythm

soft march-by,

That love sick glory white swan

Lays silent in the daffold-gold

fading green reeds

only to die.

And - giant sized herons in misery

spread dull wings

Like our daly cross and life

My dietary red watered eyes

sun gently faces

Black brown death shroud

falls faint.

Our lost love

finds solid peace

Its silent agony

is not alive anymore

All of us...

and nature weeps.