Love Poem: Emerald Isle
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Written by: Liam Mcdaid

Emerald Isle

sitting upon the rocks
 oval bleached souls
with stone hearts
watching the waves rise 
thoughts drift away
 into another world
obscured 
by cryptic currents

 on the crest you sit
 on the tempest
long-haired temptress
enticing with
 your mermaid vice
 crashing waves carpet
 galloping onto sands
  the white steed crashes
as sea lime backslides
 
salt upon this earth 
 breathe wild and free
  I hear the seagulls cry
 echoing off cliffs where
  white skull prey lays
  one moment smiling
then washed away

 I found my Shangri-La 
amidst black tidal pools
 of misted mirrored pearl
 drops that fall then stop
 breathing in sea air
  leaving a little love
 upon the golden sands
a sailors burial ground
 in the emerald Isle


© Liam McDaid/Kim van Breda—March 2016