Class Portrait – Connemara,
Ireland, 1892
Come, wee bairns. Please.
Concentrate.
This will just take a minute.
Lads, lassies: Co-operate!
It’s not so bad now, init?
While you stand there a-wigglin’
and squirmin’ and full o’laugh,
look up…No more a-gigglin’.
Flash! And then a photograph.
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Notes: The above picture was the prompt thoughtfully provided for today by Sepia Saturday. It is a portrait of school children in Connemara, Ireland, from somewhere back the 1890s.
Because of that, I decided I needed an Irish poetic form to compliment the photo, so I chose the form Ae freslighe (pronounced 'ay
fresh lee'.)
If you are interested and would like to find out more about the form, check out The Poets' Garret.
