#derek mahon

[amundsenxcook]

Antarctica by Derek Mahon (1985)

[apoemaday]

Everything Is Going to Be Alright

by Derek Mahon

How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The poems flow from the hand unbidden and the hidden source is the watchful heart; the sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right.

[ruegracieuse]

Afterlives (for James Simmons) by Derek Mahon

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Moth

❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.

Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.

[busyasabbee]

TRC characters as poems (specifically poems I studied for leaving cert English because I don't really know any other ones lol)(also I will not be elaborating on some of them cause they are vibes based)

Gansey- Antarctica by Derek Mahon

Whelk - After the Titanic by Derek Mahon (largely because when studying Mahon we compared these poems and it reminds me of how Gansey was willing to sacrifice himself for the ley line when Whelk sacrificed others )

Blue and Maura - the pomegranate by Eavan Boland (this is the one that inspired the post and one of my favourite poems its just so THEM)

Ronan - museum of obsolescence by Tracy K Smith (specifically in td3 with bryde)

Adam - shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh (smthing Abt hiw he won't leave home despite te abuse because even tho it's bad it's *his* idk this one may be a stretch)

Blue - Outside History by Eavan Boland (it's so her ,trust)

Niall and Mór - Love by Eavan Boland

I might add more later I just needed to get these bees out of my brain.

[sentienttoast]

was just studying Derek Mahon poetry and then out of nowhere the idea struck me like some kind of divine inspiration that my debit card which has been missing for a few days is probably down the side of my couch. I immediately went to check and lo and behold it was there. thank you Derek Mahon's ghost

[soracities]

Derek Mahon, from “Everything Is Going to Be Alright”

[contremineur]

Bashō, coming to the city of Nagoya, is asked to a snow party. There is a tinkling of china and tea into china; there are introductions. Then everyone crowds to the window to watch the falling snow. Snow is falling on Nagoya and farther south on the tiles of Kyoto; eastward, beyond Irago, it is falling like leaves on the cold sea. Elsewhere they are burning witches and heretics in the boiling squares, thousands have died since dawn in the service of barbarous kings; but there is silence in the houses of Nagoya and the hills of Ise.

Derek Mahon, The snow party (in ‘The Snow Party’, Oxford University Press, 1975)