Tuesday, September 2, 2025

the vanishing lake

 watched a documentary on Loughareema, the vanishing lake - a lake on limestone with a peaty floor, and a sinkhole deep into limestone caverns below which gains a plug of peat, until the runnoff from the granite uplands wash it away and the lake vanishes - until it fills again. Only, being in Ireland, the fae solution seems much realler than scientific truths. 

Loughhareema’s there tonight

In time for midnight revels

And yet, by dawn

‘Twill all be gone

With nought but peaty levels

 

Loughareema’s shining now

And from its portal deep

The Sidhe are here

Through water clear

While mortals shift in sleep

 

Loughhareema floods the pass

The causeway watery now

Keep mortal men

From faerie glen

In quagmire and in slough

 

Loughareema’s gone again

Down to its peaty floor

Their revels spent

All fair folk went

Till it should rise once more.

 

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