A poem containing some points to live by, with a time-lapse video of the diving board in Salthill, Galway, Ireland.

Some Advice

Be proud as a memory
To light those places
Haunting an opening
To flit into some new
Unknown country,

Where plagues declare 
Unsighted, silent eyes
And subsidised laughter 
Harbours its way out

Rage is purer grain than resignation,
In species of indifference,
Allow for clarity.

Always keep a mind of tinder,
Our air is clear yet,
And owned by trees.


Cormac Culkeen 2021