A sense of satisfaction
In making soda bread
Flour and soda milk and butter mix
Salt and sugar in the bowl
And then the great surprise
Drop of cold tea
Mammy’s recipe
My nephew John
A baker now
Down in the Isle of Wight
Used to serve this soda to the Queen
Our contribution to the State
And welfare of the monarch
Glencullen soda bread
From my dear old Nan’s estate
Many a time I ate that bread
In Auntie Annie’s house
Many a time my mother made it too
Now I make it for myself
History on a plate
A slice of it at lunchtime
When I have a brew
I felt that satisfaction
Making bread today
Mixing all those elements in the bowl
And heating them for half an hour
Soon the loaf is made
Like gathering words for poems
I can share
Brian Fahy
19 August 2021
Erris Poetry 