On Bernard O Donoghue

In Worldwide literature his is a well known name
For many years Bernard O Donoghue has stood on the poetic hill of fame
It truly can be said of him with words he has a way
One of the major poets of the Poetry World of today

Far from Cullen his home-place not that far from Millstreet Town
Bernard is one who knows of great literary renown
As a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature he is up there with the best
One can say of him he has passed the poetic test

In The Irish Poetry Reading Archive and a former winner of the Whitbread Poetry Prize
To the top of the milk the cream always does rise
A down to earth fellow for one who is famous and well known
One can say of him in a class of his own

Yet in Millstreet or Cullen for him there has never been a street parade
Of far lesser mortals far more has been made
But in kilometers far from Cullen and Millstreet
He does remain famous where great minds do meet

That he is a great poet of him cannot be denied
But on his seventieth year time is not on his side
And eventually time becomes everyone's foe
I knew him as a boy many decades ago

It can be said of Bernard he has the inner glow
And his status as a poet it only does grow
He left Cullen for Oxford before his physical prime
And this is going back many Seasons in time.