a homage from an Irish voice(s)
I will not forget that
I was nearing the obelisk
Of Twenty-Two (Fiche Dò), on
The day that your death
Reached us. [even from afar]
‘Ferlinghetti’: a
Significato of many things.
You, the
Creator and the
Aider of many things, and
Many poetic approaches, rebukes
Too - that have come to
Be.
All from the humble
Initiations of San
Francisco, and its beats.
All from a deep desire
To go further. To
Go beyond
something/
Anything.
And no, I will not forget/
What I learn from
Your magnificent voice:
how it
Was Italian, American, and
Portuguese,
All at once.
I won’t put this pen/
Down, not now and not
Soon. No-
It is far too early yet/
I will read ‘Autobiography’
For the next six
days
And nights.
~dreaming of San Francisco.
Bio:
Grace Sampson is a female poet from the South-West of Ireland, aged Twenty-One. She writes, and she studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her work appears in ‘The Galway Review’, and ‘The Lothlorien Poetry Journal’. She is a contributor to a forthcoming book on Thom Gunn.