GLOBAL WARMING AND (SPRING) GENTIAN WARNING

The beautiful and reasonably rare flowering Spring Gentians spotted while walking with the dogs this March 30th evening on Derrylooney, Rusheen Bay, Galway; almost a month earlier than would be expected.

The majestic Spring Gentians on west side of path up back of Derrylooney Hill, Rusheen Bay.

Google Earth view of Rusheen Bay, Barna, Galway.

From same path on north side of Derrylooney Hill, but

other side (east) of path and taken on 2nd April 2023.

THE SNOWCOLD LIGHT

 

THE SNOWCOLD LIGHT

 

Here:

Southwards, the horizon of sky and land embrace,

The azimuth smothered by a Snowcold light,

Here; in deep crevasses without trace,

On Burren's grey karst-bound might.

There:

Eastwards, on the frozen steppes of Dantean space,

Keened by the bittern cry of a Snowcold light,

There; is found a true resilient grace,

Tempered by the black evil of an infernal fight.

Nowhere:

Downwards; Two swimmers, dive then swim;

Through crested waves of a Snowcold light: invigorate.

No; Where soldiers dive then die, on a whistled whim,

And crimson killing fields remain: emancipate.

 

Looking South across Galway Bay towards a snowcapped

Burren from Blackrock Diving Platform, Salthill, Galway.