Dromáda,
Day of the Wren.
I pick a hart’s- tongue fern
On its leaf are hieroglyphs
Dark brown gnarls that bear
A message more ancient
Than script or scripture
Than language or dialect
Than ogham or rune.
Etched before
Stone-age drawings
Before Torah or Toath
Before religion or writing
Before Greece or Rome
Before philosophy
Before theology.
Before Adam.
It tells of
Survival, of renewal
Of harmony, of balance
Of beauty, of tolerance.
Writ by nature,
It asks
When will Man
Learn to read?
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Mike Gallagher is an Irish writer and editor. His prose, poetry, haiku and songs have been published worldwide. His writing has been translated into Croatian, Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian and Chinese He won the Michael Hartnett Viva Voce competition in 2010 and 2016, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Award in 2011 and won the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Contest in 2012. His collection Stick on Stone is published by Revival Press.
http://www.limerickwriterscentre.com/books/stick-on-stone/
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