Tag: poems

• the four green fields blog5: a poet’s grave

  [A roadside flower, ready to spread it’s seed. Co Sligo, Ireland. Photo is mine.] When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; ~~from When You are…

  patrickjegan

  August 22, 2025

  daughter, death, Family, Grandson, Holding onto the Past, Ireland, Love, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Objects of Beauty, parents, Real Personal History, son, Travel Writing, Travels

  #drumcliffchurchyardyatesgrave, #irishpoetry, #literarygiftsfrommyfather, #myfather’seulogy, literature, poem, poems, poetry, wbyeats, writing

• Travels 14: Advice

  One should always follow good advice.  The following four passages were taken from posters that were for sale at the Visitor Center of the Crater Lake National Park Headquarters.  The writer is Ilan Shamir. Advice to the Mountains Reach for new heights.  Rise above it all. There is beauty as far as the eye can…

  patrickjegan

  October 21, 2013

  The RV Life, Travels

  Crater Lake National Park, mountains, night sky, poems, rivers, trees