Canal Bank Walk
by Patrick Kavanagh
Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me, that I do
The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal,
Grow with nature again as before I grew.
The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third
Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.
End of the poem
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- If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
- Олег Бундур – Дедушка
- Makers And Creatures by Vernon Scannell
- Conqueror by Russell Hughes Ragsdale
- Sonnet 10
- The Little Big Man by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – Континенты
- Dilton Marsh Halt poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Давайте и получите (РОСТА №495)
- Bound Home to Mount Song by Wang Wei
- The Song of the Little Hunter by Rudyard Kipling
- Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
- An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare poem – John Milton poems
- The Cosmic Eggs
- Ольга Берггольц – Наш сад
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