For Your Consideration: Notes On A Canal

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A poem.

By Geoff Finan, who writes:

A short that Mark Doyle made for a poem of mine called Notes On A Canal. Without being biased I think it’s the greatest thing ever written and shot….

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7 thoughts on “For Your Consideration: Notes On A Canal

  1. bisted

    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.
    The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third
    ‘…Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
    And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
    Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
    O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
    Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
    Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
    To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
    For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
    From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.’

    …sorry Geoff…even Kavanagh wouldn’t claim that this is the ‘greatest thing’ ever written about the canal…

  2. Geoffraffe

    It was tongue in cheek dude. Sorry I thought that was obvious. I’d never dream of comparing myself to the greats. Art is so subjective that I’m sure some will like it and some will think it’s shite. I’m just happy to have produced something that I’m proud of.

      1. bisted

        …fairplay indeed…I have a great fondness for those streets and banks…never had the ability to express those feelings in words or images…so fairplay…

  3. Geoffraffe

    Thank you all for your kind words and thanks to the guys at broadsheet.ie for posting it. It’s so great to have a platform like this to be able to share stuff like this with. We really appreciate it.

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