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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by bren
on:    20 July 2007

Doc Aay wrote:

>> "eugene" wrote..
>> http://images3.fotopic.net/?iid=y1ovqs&outx=600&noresize=1&original=1...

>> Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
>> Bet those years went by like lightning.

The Difficulty That Is Marriage
Paul Durcan

Ireland's Love Poems
edited by A. Norman Jeffares
New York:  W. W. Norton & Co., 2002

We disagree to disagree, we divide, we differ;;
Yet each night as I lie in bed beside you
And you are faraway curled up in sleep
I array the moonlit ceiling with a mosaic of question-marks;
How was it I was so lucky to have ever met you?
I am no brave pagan proud of my mortality
Yet gladly on this changeling earth I should live for ever
If it were with you, my sleeping friend.
I have my troubles, and I shall always have them
But I would rather live with you for ever
Than exhange my troubles for a changeless kingdom.
But I do not put you on a pedestal or throne;
You must have your faults but I do not see them.
If it were with you, I should live for ever.


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Questions? Comments? -K. E. Dennis

Poetry of Ireland   (Irish poets writing in English)

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