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“Leaving White Bridge” and other poems
by Martina Dalton June 5, 2020 This month Trasna is featuring writers participating in Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme. Every year, 22 emerging writers are selected for the program in the areas of literary fiction, creative non-fiction, children’s/YA fiction, and poetry. Each are paired with mentors. Featured this week is poet Martina Dalton. On participating in Words Ireland, she writes: “I was very honoured to receive a mentorship with the Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme in 2019. The mentoring partnership with poet Enda Wyley, gave me the confidence to make bolder, braver decisions. The support was invaluable.” Martina Dalton’s exquisite poetry portrays the balance of nature and emotion until the tranquility erupts with the insight of…
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‘Bittern Cry’ by Fergus Hogan
Our sensibility recognizes the divine in Nature and Ceremony. With vision and voice, Fergus Hogan’s lyrics intensify the connection and set it afire. Three Stones for a Decision there’s a path through the woods round the lake where I pray that I take when I’m feeling low down the summer I left I went to the edge and sat there alone every day just me the fox and the moorhen we’d watch the sun rise from the shoreline beyond and ripple its way across water till it kissed every stone on the shoreline this side and they glistened red-gold-n-amber till the sun rose so high it heated the sky and…
