' ' ' ' ' ' ' All The Stars Brilliant Brihtness(Tankas) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

ALL THE STAR’S BRILLIANT BRIGHTNESS

The door I opened
with the key of your birth...Death
closes with my grief.

All the star’s brilliant brightness
can’t tame the ghost of my loss.

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MUTE

The words had become
silent...they tried to burrow
into me...borrow
my tongue to pronounce your death.

I would not let them say it.

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CHILD

Your caul now your shroud
ghostly you came to us
in this the birth of your death
born already a ghost you
haunt us here forever. Child.

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WORD LESS

Silence is led to
Language but I can’t make
it speak. It has gone
into itself where no words
ever are...or....ever be.