Vocation(For Scarlett) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Vocation(For Scarlett)

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Young.
I watched the candle burn.

It’s fascination
two little flames

burning in my eyes.

Tell my Dad

I want
to enter

into the flame

become
the thing

be
the flame

not just know it
but be it.

He laughs.

“Either you’re a poet
or you’re mad.

I grow up
to be

a mad poet.

Dónall Dempsey
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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Onelia Avelar 04 June 2008

A poet in heart - definitely! I do not know what is in your mind - i see only a naked heart!

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Scarlett Treat 31 May 2008

Mad, indeed...but poet for real, for sure, and INDEED! Even to see the possibility of 'becoming the flame....' is what it is all about anyhow!

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Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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