Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Ten Knots along a Cord - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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Ten Knots along a Cord

 

A trewe swinkere and a good was he,

            Lyvynge in pees and parfit charitee

 

-Chaucer’s Prologue

 

See the plowman walking home from the fields

He plods along with the pace of centuries

There is no haste, for time hardly exists

Only the seasons, rolling like cosmic tides

 

And in his hand, ten knots along a cord

To count each Ave as it passes his lips

And through his heart and hopes and gratitude

His soul secure along the links of being

 

See the plowman dreaming home from the fields

His feet upon the earth, his head among the stars

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