Yanfei Chen
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Seamus Heaney is wildly recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in Country Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes
of poetry and criticism, and edited several widely used anthologies.
The Bog Queen
I lay waiting
between turf-face and demesne wall, between heathery levels and glass-toothed stone.
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My body was braille
for the creeping influences:dawn suns groped over my head and cooled at my feet,
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through my fabrics and skins the seeps of winter digested me,
the illiterate roots
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pondered and died
in the cavings
of stomach and fermenting underground
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dreams of Baltic amber.Bruised berries under my nails, the vital hoard reducing in the crock of the pelvis.
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My diadem grew carious, gemstones dropped
in the peat floe
like the bearings of history.
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My sash was a black glacier wrinkling, dyed weaves and Phoenician stitchwork retted on
my breasts' soft moraines.
I knew winter cold like the nuzzle of fjords at my thighs- the soaked fledge, the heavy swaddle of hides.
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Seamus Heaney is wildly recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in Country Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes
of poetry and criticism, and edited several widely used anthologies.
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In my daily life, I used to recording what happened in my life through writing poetry.In my mind, writing poems is a good way to express one's feelings, and make my poetry and paintings merge to impress the audience and myself .life is multi- dimensional, we can also think of it as a space, in this space, you can say it in diversity ways, panting,poetry,music,whatever.