Gabe Hannon
POETRY
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CRITIC
THE OLD NAG
SIGHT
QUIET REFLECTION
SAILING
SHADOWS OF LIFE
BROODING
THE WATER WHEEL
DARK AND SWEET
BREAKTHROUGH
WOODEN COURAGE
JUDGEMENT
INER PEACE
HOMEWARD BOUND
THIRD PASSAGE FROM "TRILOGY"
GRIEF
COUP IN
PACK OF JOKERS
LIFE
THE CASTLE NORTH HARBOUR
A MOTHER'S FEAR
THE RUG
ALONE

The Old Nag (1993)

When you are shaking my beautiful mane,...
When, pawing the ground,
With impatience in vain,..
You are champing at my bit,....
When wildly, and loudly,..
You are neighing...
Like fire...
Deep down in my bosom...
A burning desire,
Is suddenly lit.

Lnowest you not, that I long for the strand....
Infinite stretches, of hot golden sand...
Without limit or bound;
Come on my lithe sturdy, back, let me leap,...
Galloping fast as the wind,
Let us sweep,...
Devouring the ground,
Far, far, away, flee,
Break through the tangle, of thorns in the vale,...
On at a full gallop through woodland and dale...
A king you are, and free.

 

 

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