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How did I end up like this?

Seamus Heaney – Exposure
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It is December in Wicklow:
Alders dripping, birches
Inheriting the last light,
The ash tree cold to look at.

A comet that was lost
Should be visible at sunset,
Those million tons of light
Like a glimmer of haws and rose-hips,

And I sometimes see a falling star.
If I could come on meteorite!
Instead I walk through damp leaves,
Husks, the spent flukes of autumn,

Imagining a hero
On some muddy compound,
His gift like a slingstone
Whirled for the desperate.

How did I end up like this?
I often think of my friends'
Beautiful prismatic counselling
And the anvil brains of some who hate me

As I sit weighing and weighing
My responsible tristia.
For what? For the ear? For the people?
For what is said behind-backs?

Rain comes down through the alders,
Its low conductive voices
Mutter about let-downs and erosions
And yet each drop recalls

The diamond absolutes.
I am neither internee nor informer;
An inner émigré, grown long-haired
And thoughtful; a wood-kerne

Escaped from the massacre,
Taking protective colouring
From bole and bark, feeling
Every wind that blows;

Who, blowing up these sparks
For their meagre heat, have missed
The once-in-a-lifetime portent,
The comet's pulsing rose.
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Seamus Heaney chapter - Shodhganga

shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10603/665/.../11_chapter4.pdf‎
by B Manivannan - ‎2010

Seamus Heaney: Resistance and Continuity ...poetry,

Seamus Heaney closely follows the Yeats poetic tradition

recording Irish rural setting in ... (Helen Vender 2)

The New York Times

may know squat

About JFK

But sure are good on Seamus

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/heaney-author.html

Francis X CLines writes a brilliant piece

POET OF THE BOGS

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/13/books/heaney-bogs.html

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He fights to keep things basic

to re-mind himself

of the simple wisdom

of Finn MacCool

Ireland's mythic national hero

that the best music in the world

is

the music of what happens

In his

Elegy

dedicated to

Lowell

Heaney reminded

himself

The way we are living

Timorous or Bold

Will have been

our Life

So that is where

Noli Timere

comes from

Never Fear

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Seamus is impressed

by mister jones

But Paul Brady

and Piper Liam

Are friends

of long

standing

Seamus is Always Impressed

by the Very Best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6oqBKE1ObY

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Seamus is on my case

again

Wants me to play Dylan

with an Irish

accent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emlbdTluHVk

In this video

we see

Bobby Clancy

The brother

who stayed

in Tipp

Seamus says

The Clancy boys

are like Heaney boys

Who can

sing

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Seamus texted me

To say

This forum officially

Jumped the shark

By allowing this topic

To stay

On the front page for so long.

Seamus went on

To say

He is embarrassed

By all this weird attention

He is getting

On an Assassination Forum.

Seamus then said

Play me Candle in the Wind,

The one where Sir Elton

Wears the weird wig

Down Under.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOhnrjdYOc

Goodbye.

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Seamus then said

Play me Candle in the Wind

Hello Zach

My sons Ciaran and Sean

Once dragged me

Kicking and screaming

to see

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Sir Elton John

At Madison Square Garden

My favorite Elton song

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDC7OP5LAlc

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Seamus was a fierce man

for rebel songs

Sean South

From

Garryowen

Full Disclosure

My father met

Sean South

on his way

to the North....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=travIM8AywU

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My Dad

Was a fan

of

Samuel Johnson

Who said

The IRish are

not in a conspiracy

to deceive the world

about the merits

of

their fellow countrymen

the IRish are

a

fair minded people

they never speak well

of

one another

Unless

they wear

the

Jackets Green

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFY-nGgVg4

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