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2024-06-03

SAMHRADH / SUMMER


Joseph Henry Sharp - an campa samhraidh 

    
A bilingual ekphrastic tanka in Irish and English: (5-7-5-7-7 syllables)

spreading across skies
and moving among the trees
summer of our love
      reflected in the rivers
      and in our hearts, belovèd

thar na spéartha leis
is bogann i measc na gcrann
samhradh seo ár ngrá
        le feiscint sna haibhneacha
        is inár gcroí, a thaisce