Canal Bank Walk
Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the
Pouring redemption for me, that I
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
Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Inniskeen Road July Evening
The bicycles go by in twos and threes -There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code of And the wink-and-elbow language of delight Half-past eight and there is not a
Shancoduff
My black hills have never seen the sun rising, Eternally they look north towards Armagh Lot's wife would not be salt if she had Incurious as my black hills that are
Memory of my Father
Every old man I Reminds me of my When he had fallen in love with One time when sheaves were gathered
To the Man After the Harrow
Now leave the check-reins slack, The seed is flying far today -The seed like stars against the Eternity of April clay This seed is potent as the