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Evensong - ALL I KNOW

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 - MAKE - BELIEVE

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 - SWALLOWS

Evensong - SWALLOWS

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

SWALLOWS On a day that is almost September, Torn between sun and wind, Like ice skaters curling the sky They loop and skirt and lift – Little miracles made of air...

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Evensong - GLIESE 581

Evensong - GLIESE 581

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

GLIESE 581 If we should find some other star – Half a century away, still in the silence of the sky –...

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Evensong - NOVEMBER

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 - MORNING

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 - SOLACE

Evensong - SOLACE

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

SOLACE I look back through my mind and see The days when forest wolved the land in mystery And light was cradled out of coracles In wild and wintered island storm...

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Evensong - ARGYLL, OCTOBER

Evensong - ARGYLL, OCTOBER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ARGYLL, OCTOBER out at the sea’s edge the whole wind riding the day the bracken crippled and whipped the sometimes of light blown away...

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Evensong - CLEARING THE SNOW

Evensong - CLEARING THE SNOW

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

CLEARING THE SNOW we breasted waves of it, waist deep to make some kind of path...

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Evensong - ENDPIECE

Evensong - ENDPIECE

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ENDPIECE Last year in Greenland I bought it Under great whales of mountains by a sea of ice...

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Evensong - EVENSONG, AMPLEFORTH

Evensong - EVENSONG, AMPLEFORTH

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ARGYLL, OCTOBER I open the door and walk; Stone booms and hisses underneath my feet...

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Evensong - A BASKET OF WATER

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 - THE LINN

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 - ONCE UPON A TIME

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 - Acknowledgements

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 - EASTER

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 - A POEM

Evensong - A POEM

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

A POEM Sometimes it is no more extraordinary Than going for water from a well...

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Evensong - SANCTUARY

Evensong - SANCTUARY

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

AFTERWARDS Evensong After the last fires in the sky there was nothing, just the empty humming of the wires, the roads grey rivers stretching out of sight. We left with no more than we could carry as our ancestors did, back in the days before we began to want more than ever we had…

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