"Hello" Poetry
Classics
Words
Blog
F.A.Q.
About
Contact
Guidelines
© 2024 HePo
by
Eliot
Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads.
Become a member
Donall Dempsey
Poems
Jan 2023
INVOCATION
INVOCATION
See the dead
bring in the hay.
Hear them call
all the cow's by name
as the evening
ambles in.
Take the horse
out of her harness
whisper their thanks
to her.
Hands...rough hands
that mend a fence
fix a hedge
collect eggs,,,feed pigs.
The thousand tasks
of a farm dressed
in the glorious summer
of long lost ago.
Call them by their names
as you call them then
the child you were
reeling them in.
See them come
eagerly alive again.
Loving that you
have not forgotten them.
"Mikey...Seanie...Sonny...Granny...Nellie!"
Ghost voices
on the wind.
Fields fallow.
Home a ruin.
How time
crumbles away.
I gather you in.
Name you one by one.
Do not allow
time or death
to touch you.
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
Follow
😀
😂
😍
😊
😌
🤯
🤓
💪
🤔
😕
😨
🤤
🙁
😢
😭
🤬
0
99
L B
Please
log in
to view and add comments on poems