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
Ordered lexicons studied songs, grabbed Satan's nose; with
Hot tongs.' From his cell of five feet by three.' He moved
On to Cantebury.'
Categories:
dunstan, appreciation, city, history,
Form: Other
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 lillies breathing in the winking pool
Needlecase or lion flies, sentinels of the stream
In which a soul can see blue past the deep heaven
Let them in the schoolyard shout, I will dream
In the glow of green and light I sip the leaven
I must remember please do not fall asleep here
The tides move fast that cut against despair.
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Poem recovered from a note
Brawling schoolyard, frenzied desire
Balm of liquid green drenched
The flame; light falls wingless from trees
Deeper peace here's entrenched
Tomorrow is a girl, bright leaf
Drinking light; her lips taste -
Nectared flowers; yearning I love
Where water earth errase.
Categories:
dunstan, places, light, water, green,
Form: Rhyme
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.
Categories:
dunstan, loss,
Form: Verse
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
And kiss while doves sing far away
A happy lovers tune
One week, one month, one year to come
By the Black River flowing
We will dance like children to the village drum
For the joy that we are knowing
One life to live is all we have, and it passes fast
Away. O love, my love do not delay
My will to live by thy slow destiny is cast
Like thoughts between the river and the bay
One love I claim, one you, one beauty sought
One purpose from the king of heaven
One dream upon my heart is wrought
One prize for which the soul has striven
One day by Dunstan River we will sit again
You and I, after the abeng blows
The wind will sing us its sweet refrain
While cool the Dunstan River flows
Categories:
dunstan, hope, love, natureday, love,
Form: Rhyme
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 never deep
I was a boy with only a familiar face
And fleetive memories to keep
I know then best the quiet room
The quiet trees in the woodlands gloom
The salt sea rocks where I came
To dream of Dunstan river's claim
For nothing owned that had not loved me
Nothing ever can, but that river
Was a discovery un-exhausted, a secrecy
Not well explored ... a memory owning me forever
O must got there again. I must
Wade in and feel the lips of water lust
Softly for my feet, and part its breasts
So my head between them may rest
And go to sleep, and go to sleep
On an evening when only the birds sing
And children still the peanut reap
And the river, the river a long, long string
Categories:
dunstan, allegory, nature, placesriver,
Form: Verse
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 your gate with his letter
You never read to know his pain
Do you remember an evening, Verletta
Do you recall the past so vain
I towed you on my bicycle, and forever
Wore your name to the school's disdain
And do your remember ever the lilacs
Blooming golden still, bees humming
Round your cottage like arawaks
And you, my love, so stunning, stunning?
Categories:
dunstan, love
Form: Quatrain