{"id":2181,"date":"2026-03-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:27:20","slug":"leaf-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/2026\/03\/04\/leaf-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaf (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alana (Y7) has written her own poem in Irish Gaelic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gan a bheith faoi ghlas ag daoine eile, 
Ag marca\u00edocht ar an bhfarraige, 
Ag breathn\u00fa ar chath, ar thruailli\u00fa agus ar shaoirse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

T\u00e1 s\u00ed bun\u00fasach, \u00e1rsa, 
Ach t\u00e1 a h\u00e1illeacht f\u00f3s ag bl\u00e1th\u00fa, f\u00f3s \u00f3g. 
Ag treor\u00fa daoine eile, 
Duine feice\u00e1lach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mac\u00e1ntacht agus pl\u00e9isi\u00far inti. 
Cara le meas agus le gr\u00e1. 
Ach t\u00e1 s\u00ed caillte go m\u00f3r inti f\u00e9in, 
In \u00e1it nach gcloiseann aon duine \u00ed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ag cur ceilt ar a saol, 
Mar fhinn\u00e9 ar an stair, 
Ag breathn\u00fa ar eachtra\u00ed uaf\u00e1sacha agus ar thubaist\u00ed, 
Gan aon duine f\u00e1gtha d\u00e1 leath f\u00e9in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d3, c\u00e9 mh\u00e9ad uair a c\u00e9asadh m\u00e9 san am at\u00e1 caite, 
Le linn coga\u00ed agus blianta claontachta. 
D\u2019fh\u00e9adfadh go leor laethanta a bheith mar an l\u00e1 deireanach dom, 
Mar a bh\u00ed do go leor eile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is mise an chuileog nathrach sa dorchadas, 
Solas neamhchoitianta. 
Ach tagann an l\u00e1 sa deireadh, 
Agus im\u00edm as radharc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coinn\u00edm istigh \u00e9, 
Agus ansin ligim d\u00f3 imeacht. 
Pointe beag caillte ar an l\u00e9arsc\u00e1il, 
\u00c1it ina bhfuil an oiread sin ruda\u00ed anaithnid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ach n\u00ed f\u00e9idir liom cuimhneamh a thuilleadh, 
N\u00e1 marca\u00edocht ar an bhfarraige, 
Mar t\u00e1 mo sholas ag meath, 
Agus anois tuigim gur in am dom codladh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red bleeding heart on a blue background, painted with watercolors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

English Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unshackled by others  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riding the sea <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching the combat, pollution and liberty  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s primordial with beauty still blooming, still young <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guiding others  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ostentatious one  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candour with pleasure  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A friend to admire and endear  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, she is so very lost inside  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where no one can hear  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veiling her life <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A witness of history  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching the harrowing events and tragedies  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With no one left from her half  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, how I have been tortured in the past  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the wars and racist years  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many days could have been my last <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like it has been for many others  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a dragonfly in the dark  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A distinctive lumine <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But daytime comes eventually <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I disappear <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bottle it up  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let it go  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lost pinpoint on the map  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where there are so many unknows  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I can no longer reminisce <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And ride the sea  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because my shine is wilting  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now I know it is my time to sleep <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alana (Y7) has written her own poem in Irish Gaelic Gan a bheith faoi ghlas ag daoine eile, Ag marca\u00edocht ar an bhfarraige, Ag breathn\u00fa ar chath, ar thruailli\u00fa agus ar shaoirse.  T\u00e1 s\u00ed bun\u00fasach, \u00e1rsa, Ach t\u00e1 a h\u00e1illeacht f\u00f3s ag bl\u00e1th\u00fa, f\u00f3s \u00f3g. Ag treor\u00fa daoine eile, Duine feice\u00e1lach.  Mac\u00e1ntacht agus pl\u00e9isi\u00far inti. Cara le meas agus le gr\u00e1. Ach t\u00e1 s\u00ed caillte go m\u00f3r inti f\u00e9in, In \u00e1it nach gcloiseann aon duine \u00ed.  Ag cur ceilt ar a saol, Mar fhinn\u00e9 ar an stair, Ag breathn\u00fa ar eachtra\u00ed uaf\u00e1sacha agus ar thubaist\u00ed, Gan aon duine f\u00e1gtha d\u00e1 leath f\u00e9in.  \u00d3, c\u00e9 mh\u00e9ad uair a c\u00e9asadh m\u00e9 san am at\u00e1 caite, Le linn coga\u00ed agus blianta claontachta. D\u2019fh\u00e9adfadh go leor laethanta a bheith mar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1],"tags":[229,230,227],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-uncategorised","tag-irishgaelic","tag-litereature","tag-poetry-2","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}