Stillness and movement
Watch it for hours
Holds our attention
Strange in its powers
Sit by a fireside
Fire warmth and flame
Always in movement
Yet always the same
Stand by the ocean
Look out to sea
Waves rolling inwards
Flowing to me
‘Tween shore and horizon
Unmoving the scene
Yet always in motion
Invites me to dream
Now in the stillness
Folk shuffle in
Continuing stream
Silence no din
Candle flame burning
Guards there like stone
People keep moving
Eliza’s last throne
Brian Fahy
16 September 2022
+ Sitting by a living fireside, standing by the ocean, gives us a vision of stillness and movement that entrances us. Westminster Hall today gives the same vision – stillness and movement. They are the dynamics of our living world. Our own personal life is at its best when these two elements are in tandem, in harmony with one another.
Erris Poetry 