‘Torn Towns and Concrete Fields’

A poem here written in the 1980s by the Manx nationalist Annette Bridson. It seems as relevant now:

REFLECTION.

T E Brown what would you say

If you could see this Isle today,

With torn towns and concrete fields

And men obsessed with interest yields?

What would you say of this ‘ferned Grot’

Now stagnant dead and foul ‘God Wot!’

And air that from pollution flows

And stunts the growth of plant and soul?

O poet of the inner eye

Who with thy words raised Manx on high

Give us the strength and foresight too,

To change this Isle, to think anew.

(Annette Bridson 1983)

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Bernard Moffatt

Celtic League (9th February 2023)