Great poem, Melanie! I love how you describe the personalities at play and they way they interact with the environment. I felt like I was watching the scene rather than reading it.
when a gaggle of geese fly overhead and they are finally all in good flying formation so they have stopped honking directions at each other and all you can hear is their wings flapping?
Melanie, have you ever seen Tom Moore’s animated film Song of the Sea (Cartoon Saloon)? It opens with that refrain from Yeats—and the cartoon that follows earns it!
Great poem, Melanie! I love how you describe the personalities at play and they way they interact with the environment. I felt like I was watching the scene rather than reading it.
Thank you. I was really trying for visual immediacy I’m glad that worked.
children dart back and forth like busy
sanderlings. From one railing to the other
A beautiful poem about relishing the time together.
Thank you, Ann.
You know that sound?
when a gaggle of geese fly overhead and they are finally all in good flying formation so they have stopped honking directions at each other and all you can hear is their wings flapping?
Thats a pretty kool sound.
Oh yeah. I love it.
Melanie, have you ever seen Tom Moore’s animated film Song of the Sea (Cartoon Saloon)? It opens with that refrain from Yeats—and the cartoon that follows earns it!
Oh yes! Song of the Sea is a favorite. So beautiful. I had forgotten that it uses the Yeats, though.