A not so quaint Saint'
...Poet and saint Dunstan was great, pushed in a cesspool.'
He arose.' He survived he was no fool.' Archbishop He would be'
Counsel to Kings. Often gave he! humble yet strong he
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Categories:
dunstan, appreciation, city, history,
Form: Other
A Quiet Place For Rebirth
...note in the margin of a book
I come here, and so often without mass or time,
Recovering my childhood's first absence from school
This is Dunstan River, and so celestial the clime
I hear water lillie...
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Categories:
dunstan, places, light, water, green,
Form: Rhyme
The Flight
...I saw the herons trooping across the evening sky
And wondered how far their white wings flew
What perils neath cosmic clouds their patient path defy
What change awaits them none ever knew
The call of...
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Categories:
dunstan, love, change, river,
Form: Verse
Dunstan Requisition
...Dunstan River
I am returned again
O never
Can I your peace disdain
Or sever
My heart from love's cold pain
Set water
To my tongue, love is vain....
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Categories:
dunstan, loss,
Form: Verse
One (Jw)
...One day by Dunstan River I'll sit again
You and I to dream
Far away from the old fields of pain
Bathing naked in her stream
One night in the guinea grass we will lay
And whisper to the moon
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Categories:
dunstan, hope, love, natureday, love,
Form: Rhyme
Dunstan River
...Dunstan River of thee I write
Thy waters gurgling through the night
I did not return to thee that day
For I was suddenly pulled away
My home was not a constant place
And friendships ...
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Categories:
dunstan, allegory, nature, placesriver,
Form: Verse
Do You Remember
...Do you remember a school, Verletta
Do you wander there again
To hear the hymns of Dunstan River
And sink the ships of rain
Do you remember a boy, Verletta
Do you think of him again
Riding by ...
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Categories:
dunstan, love
Form: Quatrain