Grass of Parnassus & Burnet Rose are Sacred Burren Emblems

Grass of Parnassus & Burnet Rose are Sacred Burren Emblems

(For Martina Neilan)

Imagine grass even flowers Gentian, Cowslip & Pyramidal Bugle under boulders & craggs Water Avens, Water Mint at peninsula Finavarra & Flaggy Shore Grass of Parnassus & Burnet Rose are Sacred Burren Emblems .

Igniting Pink light over silver Burren stone Whether a rainbow sunrise or sunset fleeting . Limpet Urchins Sea Lettuce & Sea-Lavender Anemone’s emerging to eat up Jellyfish White-Lipped Snail Lizards & Eels . Mute Swans grazing at Bishop’s Quarter bending head’s in prayer Where first Gentian was spotted with little fluffy Egret & Saint Tola Feral Goats grazing the summits of Mullach Mór . Igniting Pink light over silver Burren stone Whether a rainbow sunrise or sunset fleeting . O’Kelly’s Spotted-Orchid & Bloody Crane’s-Bill Dark-Red Helleborine & thin Saint John’s Wort Porcelain Fungus & Black Head’s Thong weed . Hazel is the main species in Irish woodland & the Burren With male Catkins in Autumn & Red Female Flowers in Spring Offering a good food supply for small Mammals . Like the squirrel or lora rua & badger meles meles or broc & stoat or easóg & Red fox vulpes vulpes or madra rua as gaeilge & the mountain hare Lepus timidus hibernicus, the otter lutra lutra or madra uisce, Pine martin martes martes hibernicus or giorria . Gentian, Cowslip & Pyramidal Bugle under boulders & crags Water Avens, Water Mint at Finavarra peninsula & Flaggy Shore Grass of Parnassus & Burnet Rose are Sacred Burren Emblems .

Sheela-Na-Gig over door of Kilnaboy Church & Cross of Lorraine Dysert O’Dea’s High Cross & Kinvara Windmill with fog Corcomroe Abbey with inset rainbow over Abbey Hill & Galway bay Where souls rest in peace .