The Perch Poem by Seamus Heaney

The Perch

Rating: 4.9


Perch on their water perch hung in the clear Bann River
Near the clay bank in alder dapple and waver,

Perch they called ‘grunts’, little flood-slubs, runty and ready,
I saw and I see in the river’s glorified body

That is passable through, but they’re bluntly holding the
pass,
Under the water-roof, over the bottom, adoze

On the current, against it, all muscle and slur
In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air

That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold
In the everything flows and steady go of the world.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Andrew Jackson 09 February 2019

Beautiful.. yes... an astonoshing art I can say.

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ThIsEnGlIsHdUdE 09 July 2018

poopoopoopoopoopoopoo

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Castledàwson, County Londonderry
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