Patrick Kavanagh God Poems

  • 1.
    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.
    ...
  • 2.
    We have tested and tasted too much, lover-
    Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
    But here in the Advent-darkened room
    Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
    ...
  • 3.
    I
    Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
    Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move
    Along the side-fall of the hill - Maguire and his men.
    ...
  • 4.
    Now leave the check-reins slack,
    The seed is flying far today -
    The seed like stars against the black
    Eternity of April clay.
    ...
  • 5.
    We borrowed the loan of Kerr's ass
    To go to Dundalk with butter,
    Brought him home the evening before the market
    And exile that night in Mucker.
    ...
  • 6.
    April dusk
    It is tragic to be a poet now
    And not a lover
    Paradised under the mutest bough.
    ...
Total 6 God Poems by Patrick Kavanagh

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