Digging

009 - Digging
by Saleh Badrah

Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, going down and down
For the good turf. Digging.
~ Seamus Heaney (1939- )

Keep digging, O my soul, and pay no heed
To what the minds of shallow men may breed.
Within the self, and nowhere else indeed,
The secret mines of golden wisdom lie.

Published in the Saudi Gazette, Thursday, 19 February 1998
Copyright © Saleh Badrah