Where is my favourite place?
In all the world
Good question
Since I’ve lived in quite a few
Let me name them to you
Lancashire and Tyldesley for a start
A mining town
And mills
A great big heart
I love the place because
It was the start
Of everything
Everything you’re a part
Birmingham was school
We won’t go there
I’ve bored the world
With those boring years
And Perth for all its beauty
Set apart upon a hill
Won’t do
And Shropshire!
Well I’ll swear if you want me to
London was okay
But far too big
Clapham Common football
Pint of Young’s
Glasgow brief encounter
Say no more
Liverpool
The wise guys
Friends and more
Roma
Full of sunshine
Study too
Italia bellissima
The bit I knew
Then Kent and Canterbury
English tranquil
Lovely villages
Lovely English beer
Hampshire
Chawton village
Quiet time
Recuperation
Relaxation mine
Ireland of course
All my days
West coast haunted
Erris Westport town
Coastline of Mayo
Mulranny and Clew Bay
Now you’re talking
There I could settle down
But I didn’t
Because I met a girl
Who brought me here to Scotland
Yet again
And Stirling is quite beautiful
A pleasant peaceful town
I’ve lived here twenty years and more
It’s here I settled down
But my favourite place
In all the world
Is not geography
It is story
The story of my Margaret
Of Michael my son
And now of grandsons
Gathered round my knee
It is the story of the journey
That has brought me home to me
Brian Fahy
9 June 2021
Erris Poetry 