BALTIMORE, COUNTY CORK
That day,
sky, mountains, cliffs and glorious wind-swept air.
How could I not dance?
Dance among sea pinks and spongy grasses.
Climb sheer rugged rocks.
‘To the Beacon,’ my friend called.
There, secure between two boulders, I looked down,
down on smoke-blue, sun-diamond sea.
Maureen Weldon
Previously published in Poetry Space Winter Showcase 2016, Edited by Johanna Boal
Maureen Weldon is Irish. 2014 represented Wales at Ukraine’s Terra Poetica. Her poetry has been widely published, including Crannog, Poetry Scotland, Open Mouse, Vsesvit, Ink Sweat & Tears. She has published five chapbooks, latest, 2014 ‘Midnight Robin’ Poetry Space Ltd. Now hugely looking forward to her Red Squirrel Press Pamphlet in 2020
Photo credit @bumbleandmoss http://www.tinamedwardswriter.com
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