Dreams of St Brendan
An oceanographer lays a gentle map across lap
Arrow moves with deft stealth
upon a dream make route
Paper of map is hemp and oil
Monk builds the dream maker ship
To visit his wide open parishes
From islands of green
To islands of sheep
To islands of fire
To a land of ice
To land a leather boat on a New - Found - Land
by a great river too wide to cross
Oceanographer folds map
Leather boat , a corragh,
gently moulded from history to fantasy
back to reality
St Brendan's voyage
Arrow deft
Dream makers reality lost in a trough of waves
Finally dug out when memory is old