Happy St. Patrick's Day!! I'm breaking slightly from the month’s theme (women writing about women), but still in keeping with Women’s History Month and as a nod to St. Patty’s Day/ the Irish, I've chosen a female, Irish poet. Plus, the poem is about history. Does that count? Either way, enjoy this beautiful poem and don’t forget to wear something green!
Outside History
by Eavan Boland
These are outsiders, always. These stars—
these iron inklings of an Irish January,
whose light happened
thousands of years before
our pain did; they are, they have always been
outside history.
They keep their distance. Under them remains
a place where you found
you were human, and
a landscape in which you know you are mortal.
And a time to choose between them.
I have chosen:
out of myth in history I move to be
part of that ordeal
who darkness is
only now reaching me from those fields,
those rivers, those roads clotted as
firmaments with the dead.
How slowly they die
as we kneel beside them, whisper in their ear.
And we are too late. We are always too late.
Found at: http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/eavan_boland/poems/1198
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