' ' ' ' ' Eternity In A Grain Of Sand - New Year Poem For Lyn Poem by Dónall Dempsey

' ' ' ' ' Eternity In A Grain Of Sand - New Year Poem For Lyn

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She takes an old broken cracked conch shell
a dried up Corsican starfish

sand from her backyard sandpit(slightly damp)

dumps them all on her nice clean new sheets.

“I’m bringing the seaside to bed! ”
she announces

her creation
(like a little God) .

Hours later I peeped in

to find her
asleep by her seaside

Dreaming it...for real.

I tuck her & her seaside up
gently

against the coming cold

tiptoe away

trying not wake
either.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sakalabaktula Sairaj 04 January 2018

Always write good poems like this

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Scarlett Treat 29 December 2008

As always, as you tiptoe in and out of beautiful Tilly's life...you make her and her loves and dreams and beauty and warmth and childhood come alive for me, and I love her and cherish her as though she were one of my very own. This is perfect love...that asks nothing in return...and you do it so well. Scarlett

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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