Tuesday, 14 January 2014

IONA: Reilig Odrhain (St Oran’s Graveyard – resting place of kings)


After watching 'The Sacred Wonders of Britain (BBC2 in the UK), when Neil Oliver visited the graveyard of the kings, a resting place for more than forty kings, possibly, but by no means certainly, including Shakespeare's Macbeth and his victim  Duncan I was reminded of a further IONA poem I had written a while ago.

IONA: Reilig Odrhain
(St Oran’s Graveyard – resting place of kings)

What
could possibly bring
this Isle of Hy
to the eye
of a single king?
Let alone
near seven times seven!

Could be it is
by God's good grace
for His Wild Goose
a resting place.

Did they
for this reason believe,
through Columcille’s weave,
they might leave
this earth
closer to Heaven?

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