Ballygahan
A long time ago in Ballygahan,
That’s where my life began,
Born to parents who were so austere,
The Fourth Commandment, they did revere,
Products of a social order, now gone by,
And lived that way until they both did die.
The homestead now unkempt and grown wild,
Alive to me still, in my memory as a child.
To Ballygahan, I never again will go,
Remembering as it was from an old photo.
My parents, are long since dead and gone,
The children now scattered and moved on.
About this poem
A personal reflection of the author’s childhood home and the changes that have taken place since then. It is set in Ballygahan, Avoca, County Wicklow, a place of significant memories for the author, and explores themes of family, memory, and the passage of time. https://www.booksie.com/725985-ballygahan
Written on July 08, 2024
Submitted by PolarPaddy on July 15, 2024
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 471 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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