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
- Николай Заболоцкий – Искушение
- Владимир Степанов – Шарик (Буква Ш)
- Ольга Берггольц – Старая гвардия
- The Bonifratrian Hospital by Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Gardener XXXVIII: My Love, Once upon a Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
- Like The Water by Wendell Berry
- Иосиф Бродский – Буров тракторист
- Вера Павлова – Сражаться с прошлым
- The Scratch by Raymond Carver
- A man saw a ball of gold in the sky by Stephen Crane
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- Threshold by Rabindranath Tagore
- Victory
- Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry by Robert Burns
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
