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
15 random poems
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- The sky has never seen such a moon
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier
- Breath by Ryssel Guzman
- Николай Глазков – Пошел тропой
- Mr. Brain by Russell Edson
- Sonnet 08
- TRANSPARENCY by Satish Verma
- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket by Robert Lowell
- Paris, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Paris by T. Wignesan.
- Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Георгий Иванов – Так тихо гаснул этот день
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