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Poetry EJ McCann
from A New Ulster 105
by Amos Greig
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: E J McCann
E.J McCann - Irish Poet influenced by the Earth, the Universe, Life and Death.
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A poem about childhood growing up on the beautiful eastern coastline of N.Ireland.
CHILDHOOD BY THE SEA
It is our secret coastline That fills us full of glee With crashing waves and stormy seas From Portavogie to Donaghadee
The green leathered skin waves Twinkling in the morning sun Crash against the shingle sands and seaweed stacks With guinness stout heads clutching waiting to go back
Crunch and crackle under foot Silver buried beneath the waves Oil tankers docked in the bay light up the evening skies Like fallen meteorites flickering out
Each day a mystery for my young child To play upon Cloughey's golden sands Looking out upon the ocean wide And dream of foreign lands
Skimming a stone and catching crabs Sing on swings and dance around roundabouts Drawing pictures and building castles to fallen Kings and Queens upon the dunes Eating ice cream and rolling jacks, never wanting to ever go back
Ballyhalbert, Ballywalter Groomsport and Bangor Town In our heads Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto and Mars As we drive around
It is our secret coastline That fills us full of glee With crashing waves and stormy seas From Portavogie to Donaghadee
