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Eoghan Lyng·October 29, 2018

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Firelight

written by: Eoghan Lyng

@eoghanlyng

Quick as a light, we light

Energies fuelled for a temporal light

Forgotten in the lengthy night.

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Eoghan Lyng is an Irish man and sometime writer. He lives in Glasgow, having written from the perspective from Cork, Madrid and Prague. He has written for OutlawPoetry, VadaMagazine and FromTheLighthouse.

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