à un inconnu
j'ai demandé mon chemin
pour aller à la gare

et ce doux prêtre-poète
m'accompagna bien au-delà
                                                                                                     © Rosa M.   28 juillet 2009


  Poème écrit et lu par Padraig J. Daly à Cork, Irlande, le 21 Février 2008

PÁDRAIG J. DALY was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford in 1943 and is now working as an Augustinian priest in Dublin. He has published several collections of poetry, among them The Last Dreamers: New & Selected Poems (1999) and The Other Sea (2003), as well as his translations from the Italian of Edoardo Sanguineti, Libretto (1999) and Paolo Ruffilli, Joy and Mourning (reissued 2007). His latest collection of poems is Clinging to the Myth (2007) in which he refelects on grief and personal bereavement and uses the voices of 18th century Gaelic poetry to respond to the challenges of a post-Christian Ireland.