Nua or Not

My regular visitors / compadres said
jaysus Des flag up a new / old poem

My material goes back 30 years or so and it is like the weather - some years in favour some not anywhere.


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"In the eyes of these lovers of uneasiness and perfection, a work is never finished – a word which for them has no meaning – but abandoned; and this abandonment, which delivers it to the flames or to the public (and whether it is the effect of lassitude or of the obligation to deliver) is a sort of accident, comparable to the rupture of a reflection, which the fatigue, the unfortunate or some sensation come to nullify"

So then an old poem
https://www.poet.ie/2001/07/poem-boy-soldiers.html