Today’s poem is “Begin” by Brendan Kennelly, the much-loved Irish poet who died in 2021 at the age of 85.

It is a poem about the beauty in the awareness of the ordinary precious world around us, and also about the foreverness, the sense of the eternal that comes through all endings and finality and loss.

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You can read "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly here