Dark haired and good-looking
A man in love with words
A poet and a lover
His feast day now returns
Not all of him was lovely
But who are we to scorn
A man like any other
His frailties well known
I found his words a student
They held me in their thrall
What voice is this? What man I wonder
What his rallying call?
A voice to call out lovers
Of lassies and of life
A man who strayed and fathered more
Than he had with his wife
A man who struggled all his life
And died at thirty-seven
And left with us his writings
That point the way to heaven
A man’s a man for a’ that
Yes and Ae Fond Kiss
Robert Burns immortal
And your immortal mouse
Brian Fahy
22 January 2023
+ January 25 is Burns Night.
Erris Poetry 