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    A poem for these times..

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    By Senior Times on April 7, 2020 Literature

    April, London

    Eamon Lynskey

     

    In Mile End Park the daffodils

    explode again and he’s beside me

     

    telling how they’re good as any

    fringed the edge of Ullswater.

     

    He talks about the beautiful,

    the way it is inseparable

     

    from the brutal. Think, he says,

    the ghostly language of the earth:

     

    its cresting waves: such majesty –

    and threat. Its mountain peaks – reminders

     

    of our frailty. And yet –

    this splendid, fluttering host!

     

    I think

     

    the splendid, serried ranks that roared

    at Nuremberg and prophesied

     

    the bones and blitzmuck of this bombsite

    underneath our feet. But yes,

     

    they’re beautiful and good as any

    trimmed the banks of Windermere

     

    that spring that year. Or any year,

    whatever bad our futures bring.

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