Anna Kelly's Posts - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T14:50:44ZAnna Kellyhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/AnnaKelly716https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57439680?profile=original&xn_version=202403260758&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1&xj_user_default=1https://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blog/feed?user=1nhraw6vdj6v0&xn_auth=noChildhood Memories, a Poem by Anna Kellytag:thewildgeese.irish,2017-03-15:6442157:BlogPost:2145432017-03-15T16:00:00.000ZAnna Kellyhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/AnnaKelly716
<p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span class="font-size-5"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84720041?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84720041?profile=RESIZE_480x480" style="padding: 10px;" width="375"></img></a> A</span> clean “Memory Slate,” brought to this earth</strong>,</p>
<p>Shining and new on the day of our birth.</p>
<p>A special place to chronicle and store,</p>
<p>Experiences formative, new and enticing.</p>
<p>Many of them significant to ourselves alone.</p>
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<p>The bantam, downy and…</p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span class="font-size-5"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84720041?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="375" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84720041?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="375" class="align-right" style="padding: 10px;"/></a>A</span> clean “Memory Slate,” brought to this earth</strong>,</p>
<p>Shining and new on the day of our birth.</p>
<p>A special place to chronicle and store,</p>
<p>Experiences formative, new and enticing.</p>
<p>Many of them significant to ourselves alone.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The bantam, downy and white,</p>
<p>Taught me love of creatures, their importance in life.</p>
<p>Family members taught my place in our family story.</p>
<p>Prayers learned at Grandpa’s knee,</p>
<p>Laid down my foundation of faith, God’s story,</p>
<p>My place in His family too.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The bee hives in the yard,</p>
<p>Served to set me on the horticultural way.</p>
<p>The busy little creatures, pollinators of blossoms and flowers</p>
<p>Producing beauty, food and nasty stings!!</p>
<p>They taught me about bee boundaries and some caution too!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Stories told around a peat fire on a Winter’s night,</p>
<p>Brought back bygone times and heroes of yore.</p>
<p>My great exposure to story-telling, history too.</p>
<p>Walks through meadows and fields,</p>
<p>Brought a sense of the changing seasons,</p>
<p>First-hand information on how food was grown.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Very soon my slate with memories started to fill,</p>
<p>Time for my mind to process, catalogue and store.</p>
<p>The most significant, in a special place.</p>
<p>More space, more room for yet more memories still. </p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Anna Kelly. Oct. 7</font><sup><font size="2">th</font></sup><font size="3">, 2016</font></font> </p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: left;">*Illustration: "A Village in Achill,” by Francis S. Walker - 1905</p>
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<p></p>A Poem To Salute St. Brendan the Navigator.tag:thewildgeese.irish,2017-01-30:6442157:BlogPost:2123312017-01-30T20:00:00.000ZAnna Kellyhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/AnnaKelly716
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Ships, Real and Imaginary</b></span></p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5">I</span>t’s a piece of rock with a wonderful beginning.</strong></p>
<p>A cause for marvelling in a right of its own.</p>
<p>Formed deep in the magma of earth.</p>
<p>Mainly composed of quartz, the colour of light</p>
<p>And feldspar carrying the…</p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Ships, Real and Imaginary</b></span></p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5">I</span>t’s a piece of rock with a wonderful beginning.</strong></p>
<p>A cause for marvelling in a right of its own.</p>
<p>Formed deep in the magma of earth.</p>
<p>Mainly composed of quartz, the colour of light</p>
<p>And feldspar carrying the pink of roses.</p>
<p>In its journey to earth’s crust,</p>
<p>The process of crystallization made it unique.</p>
<p>It came my way while walking a country lane.</p>
<p>Its outline gave me visions of sailing ships.</p>
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<p>Ah! The tales and magic of storied vessels recalled!</p>
<p>I honour the memory of Brendan the Navigator</p>
<p>Reputed to have sailed the Atlantic in a frail leather boat</p>
<p>With sails so square and form so fragile.</p>
<p>Columbus whose voyage honoured his Queen,</p>
<p>Many years later he prayed through gales</p>
<p>To save his ships for continents new.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Many barques less honourable stories claim,</p>
<p>Carrying human cargo, to war, to slavery and death.</p>
<p> Justly proving that evil can rub shoulders with good.</p>
<p>Illustrating the choices made by bad men, faithful ones too.</p>
<p>All pictures inspired by a stone from a country lane. </p>
<p><em>Anna Kelly,</em></p>
<p><em>March 12<sup><font size="2">th</font></sup>, 2016 </em> </p>
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