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john davies
notes from a small vicar
from a parish
in Liverpool, UK

    Monday, December 23, 2002
    IS IT REALLY YOU WHO WALKS HERE?
     
    Returned from Bury to a mountain of welcome Christmas cards and curates' 2002 circulars. Stuart Penny writes, have you put your poetry online? Well, hell, no, there's a thought. A job for the new year perhaps. But here's a seasonal one to be going on with:
      O Sonic Word
      Atom-deep and universe-wide
      Spinner of planets
      Wise wizard of the spectral sky
      Is it really you who walks here?

      Life's sculptor
      Artist of the powerful hand
      Painter of rainbows
      True author of fantastic dawn
      Is it really you who walks here?

      Is it really you who walks here -
      Fond brother of the broken-down
      Champion of children
      Tenacious teller of tumultuous
      Tales

      Is it really you who walks here -
      Orchestrator of history
      Our bloody hero
      O grasper of the nettle of death
      Our One God

      Is it really you who walks here?

      (November 1992)