[If you are worthy, you might enjoy this poem about the Celtic river goddess Sionann and Thor's hammer Mjölnir. I am sure most young people in Athlone are more familiar with Mjölnir. A large statue to a bearded river god has been proposed for Athlone which seems like an inappropriate way to remember our Celtic goddess Sionann who gave the River Shannon her name. Sionann is said to have drowned in pursuit of knowledge where it was believed the Salmon of knowledge swam and gave wisdom to anyone who ate it.]
Take this hammer
and chisel her name
She has been forgotten
she has no fame
Her forgotten face
a bearded disgrace
This fall from grace
her wisdom and tears
Raining down, on a
bearded god’s frown
This outflowing wisdom
gone but is it forgotten?
This Salmon of knowledge
her destructive hubris
Drowning her sorrows
in this divided place
19/11/19 en Madrid
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