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Fidel Hogan Walsh
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Hailing from Ireland's County Cavan, Fidel Hogan Walsh has seen her poetry appear in many journals, including Poethead, Pendanic, The Irish Times, The Storms Journal, and in the University College Dublin Archives. She's been heard reading her work on the Eat the Storms poetry podcast numerous times, and was a featured poet on A Thousand Shades of Green. Fidel's poem What Peace Feels Like made her a winner of the inaugural Enlighten Prize (with Hambly & Hambly), which she won again in 2021 with her poem for you. Her first collection, Living with Love, was published in 2020, while her second – Time, a collaboration with photographer Julie Corcoran – launched Ireland's Culture Night that same year.
the poems
We Are the
Night Lovers
(save our souls)
A canvas showing off on a sweeping splendorous indigo sky
crowded in bright twinkling trailing stars
Waning nightmares seek solace
in the silver crescent of a moody moon
Nocturnal shift ends on a peeking pink sunrise
whisking away dreams Death itself wanted part of
A river lullaby lulls sleep on a meadows lush green grass
in the dark shadows of love — we are the night lovers
Travel Through Time
We are born of water
in a white mist of sea
& of everlasting memory
Where land & ocean touch
wild wind storms sing
in a whistle of waves
Loud natural eerie sounds
erupt from ancient callings
of man & of beast
On a rough morning tide
with poor visibility
I see you out of reach
You adrift of free movement
wandering aimlessly
where memories have no meaning
I now must travel through time
to bring you back
to our sacred beginnings
Surreal
~ 22nd May 2024 ~
The life you know, is no longer known.
the mountains
half in shadow & hues of deep blue
they beckon
only then do i whisper out your name
quiet quickening
echoes take you to my outstretched arms
nonexistence reality
were we of this world & of our time
the sea
we dip down to those stormy crashing dreams
the end
we are no more / you / me / & of now
what remains
deep green lush mountains & a calm sea
Publishing credits
All poems: exclusive first publication by iamb