Kenneth Steven

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Evensong - NOVEMBER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

NOVEMBER In winter we go whole days without seeing light – The trees condemned, heads bowed and bare...

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Evensong - MAKE - BELIEVE

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

MAKE-BELIEVE There is no God nowadays, We have grown up and gone away from home. There is no last prayer before the light goes out – We lie awake and wonder, and the dark is sore...

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Evensong - ALL I KNOW

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ALL I KNOW Evensong The late sun leaving in the trees an orange-red, A soft honey fire. There has been no breath of wind In fifteen days; leaves hang gold and gorgeous In the woods, and through them the deer tread Patched with light, wary. The year begins to die; The rowans hang …

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Evensong - MORNING

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

MORNING A soundless day in December; Six below and the trees furred with frost, The ground a snow that was not snow, A crystalling of cold...

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Evensong - ONCE UPON A TIME

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ONCE UPON A TIME The house asleep like a blue ship under deep water; The moon fiercing the skylight window, I padded down, bare feet trying not to creak the stairs, Out under the jewellery of the stars...

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Evensong - EASTER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

EASTER When the year is beginning again, The sleet coming in wet cotton on the wind To build against the dykes;...

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Evensong - THE LINN

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

THE LINN On August days when thunder Prowled about the hills like bears And skies were low and heavy We went to swim in the river...

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Evensong - A BASKET OF WATER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

A BASKET OF WATER The boy came back from school in tatters – A March day; snow thin in all the hills, A blue wind breezing the sun Wild across hillsides, and sweeping it away...

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Evensong - Acknowledgements

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

Acknowledgements Poems from Evensong have appeared in the following literary journals: The Countryman, Northwords Now, The Interpreter’s House, Southlight, Scintilla, Acumen, Life and Work, Epoch, Poetry Scotland, New Writing Dundee, The Fireside Book and Staple. A good number of…

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Evensong - NOVEMBER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

NOVEMBER In winter we go whole days without seeing light – The trees condemned, heads bowed and bare...

Evensong - MAKE - BELIEVE

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

MAKE-BELIEVE There is no God nowadays, We have grown up and gone away from home. There is no last prayer before the light goes out – We lie awake and wonder, and the dark is sore...

Evensong - ALL I KNOW

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ALL I KNOW Evensong The late sun leaving in the trees an orange-red, A soft honey fire. There has been no breath of wind In fifteen days; leaves hang gold and gorgeous In the woods, and through them the deer tread Patched with light, wary. The year begins to die; The rowans hang …

Evensong - MORNING

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

MORNING A soundless day in December; Six below and the trees furred with frost, The ground a snow that was not snow, A crystalling of cold...

Evensong - ONCE UPON A TIME

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ONCE UPON A TIME The house asleep like a blue ship under deep water; The moon fiercing the skylight window, I padded down, bare feet trying not to creak the stairs, Out under the jewellery of the stars...

Evensong - EASTER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

EASTER When the year is beginning again, The sleet coming in wet cotton on the wind To build against the dykes;...

Evensong - THE LINN

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

THE LINN On August days when thunder Prowled about the hills like bears And skies were low and heavy We went to swim in the river...

Evensong - A BASKET OF WATER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

A BASKET OF WATER The boy came back from school in tatters – A March day; snow thin in all the hills, A blue wind breezing the sun Wild across hillsides, and sweeping it away...

Evensong - Acknowledgements

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

Acknowledgements Poems from Evensong have appeared in the following literary journals: The Countryman, Northwords Now, The Interpreter’s House, Southlight, Scintilla, Acumen, Life and Work, Epoch, Poetry Scotland, New Writing Dundee, The Fireside Book and Staple. A good number of…