https://dailypost.wordpress.com/a visit last year to one of my favourite places, Achill island off the west coast of Ireland prompted me to pen these words . A deserted village captures the mood of the time around the famine and also remembers those who travelled to Scotland to pick potatoes in times past.

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                             Songbirds tweeting

  Welcome early morning bliss 

  Sunbeams open with a kiss

  Songbirds tweeting merry tunes

  Humming bees in rosehip blooms.
  Close by rushing river’s sound

  Nature’s beauty all around

  White clouds moving high above

  In a land that’s filled with love.
  Inhale the gift that silence brings

  Thankful for life’s sweet offerings

  Welcome in what comes your way

  Relax, enjoy a brand new day.

                 

                                          ©J.Poet7

 

  

 

 

      
        
Sadness visits from time to time

Mother nature’s bells do chime.

A broken heart and troubled mind

Memories are all that’s left behind.

Sometimes when the curtains close

Mourning fills, darkness enclose

Too much time to sit and ponder

Wringing hands, tear asunder.

Look around, feel the love

Friends are looking from above

Keeping them close within our hearts

Always caring, the healing starts.

©J.Poet7

    Summers past

Piglets suckling on the sow

Aunty milking at the cow

Cockerel crowing in the barn

Uncle spinning us a yarn.
Lifting water from the well

Sunday morning churchyard bell

Golden corn and tilling fields

By the pleasant pasture yields.
On the bog, drink cold tea

A place you always want to be

Scent the beauty in the air

Freedom captured now so rare.
Just a memory now alas

Different era, different class

Softly spoken soothing words

Too busy now to hear the birds.

©J.Poet7

Somewhere a coffin will be held high

People cheer for the death of a patriot

Corrupted by the angry and misguided 

No thought for the innocent.

Atrocities in the name of religion 

Can in no way be forgiven

But let’s not isolate our friends

For that can never make amends.

For those involved let’s shed a tear

Live our lives in love not fear

Let peace be our resolution 

Love become the revolution.

               ©J.Poet7