Lir
For today, try writing your own poem that uses an animal that shows up in myths and legends as a metaphor for some aspect of a contemporary person’s life. Include one spoken phrase.
Four swans across three loughs
and many millennia
Amongst themselves they talk
In gentle whispers
Bearing no grudges, no recall
of the day they were cast
in form of swan, to trawl
muddied waters
For nine hundred years.
And longer than that
What do they say? "My dear,
remember us well."
