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Poetry Competition Winner 2014 Homecoming: A Triptych By Sean Hoath, Glasgow I: Robin asks me in the night How far have you flown At least that is how his song is interpreted I consider my countermelody Unsure of its tenor line Remembering my journey from a place named after this one I answer in my stride Many miles for a home And soft I hope this night that Robin understands
II A new home greets me here Like each new home before it The multiplicity of beds in which I’ve slept None ever feeling like a journey’s end I’ve not truly communicated in any of them I live here a moment Hoping the memory will last When I ran in the rain to the waves of the sea And sang to the wind at the break of the dawn And was baptised by the bay in the morn When I cried as I asked myself Where do you live
III Through the cloud breaks the sun in the east Beckoning me follow O Robin won’t you join me As you and I are carried on the wind To lands of new languages Lilting in the noonday sun
Words and doors unknown await us all Will we then return their call Entweder ja oder nein, ca c’est la bonne question Des langues parlent de tout le monde If we would but listen To the tongues of teachers and tailors Of troubled mothers or trusted friends In the home stretching out around us |
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