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
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты не любишь считать облака
- Владимир Британишский – Иван Долгорукой
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- About Troy poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
- When the universe speaks by Preeth Nambiar
- “Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved” by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”: Hic Jacet wee Johnie.
- The Rendezvous
- The Fallen Elm poem – Alfred Austin
- Back Home by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- oh no – not another love poem! by Raj Arumugam
- At Ease by Walter de la Mare
- A Thought From Propertius by William Butler Yeats
- Woman by Tala Bar
- Indian Dancers by Sarojini Naidu
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