The Old Chiefs Poem by Dermot Healy

The Old Chiefs



Not till I'd seen

the old chiefs

trying to land their boats

out of the world of myth

did I hear the wheatear

and the finch.

Dermot Healy
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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* Sunprincess * 01 July 2014

............the finch is beautiful....but a wheatear I must go research....enjoyed this write with a touch of myth....

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 01 July 2014

Beautiful poem it is.

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