A piece I originally wrote for an event that didn't take place, it was used as part of the Wonderful Wander in this year's 4 Corners Festival and included in the small anthology of poetry we produced under the title of "Building a City of Grace." Today I was taking part in a meeting of the festival directors discussing some of the issues associated with what may be a very different festival next year, but one that is no less needed, we believe.
Anyway, earlier in the week some of us who had poems published in that anthology recorded ourselves reading our contributions for an online church service this weekend, and off the back of that I produced this short video rendition of the poem.
As I have said in previous blogs it owes its form, (and at least one line) to the Ballad of Amergin, reckoned to be the oldest extant poem in western Europe. However my version stands in a long line of Irish Christian writers who have thoroughly "Chritianised" their pagan sources and picked out a distinctively trinitarian form, if not entirely orthodox.
Hopefully this poem will also appear in print in another anthology in the near future, this time one made up of solely my own "Doodlings and Doggerel.".
Selah
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