After Reading 'Blackberry-Picking' Again <br /> <br />For many years <br />Seamus Heaney wrote <br />while the rest of us typed <br /> <br />none of us striking <br />keys as grand as those <br />in 'Blackberry-Picking.' <br /> <br />Not a sour syllable <br />nor bruised word <br />in any verse. <br /> <br />'Blackberry-Picking' tells <br />the rest of us to keep typing. <br />Excellence never dies <br /> <br />although it may not be ours. <br />We will hear poems <br />Seamus is writing now <br /> <br />when we sneak into heaven <br />and Seamus gives them to <br />the Seraphim to sing.<br /><br />Donal Mahoney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seamus-and-the-rest-of-us/
