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2014-01-03

Talamh Bheannaithe

from Real Thirst: Poetry of the Spiritual Journey, by Ivan M. Granger

Lig don fhís sin
den fhairsinge
atá ionat
tú a fhágaint
i d'fhothrach glórmhar.


Tiocfaidh oilithrigh
is samhlóidh siad
an teampall breá
a sheas anseo tráth
is ní thuigfidh siad



                         gurb é an scrios
                         a dhein talamh bheannaithe
                         den mhá lom seo


Let the vision
of the vastness
you are
leave you
in glorious
ruins.

Pilgrims will come
to imagine
the grand temple
that once stood,
not realizing

                    the wreck
                    made this empty plain
                    holy ground.