The Green Man

By David Russell Mosley

The Green Man is a collection of poetry that looks to the world around us and asks what lies behind the things we can see, smell, taste, touch, and hear. Poetry can help us see through what Coleridge called the "film of familiarity." These poems attempt to help the reader pierce that veil and see the world around them in a new light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Jun 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666703696

David Russell Mosley

David Russell Mosley is a poet and theologian living in the Inland Northwest. When he's not writing, David likes to drink a nice scotch, smoke his pipe, and go rambling in the woods with his wife and children.

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The Green Man

David Russell Mosley

the green man

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David Russell Mosley. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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paperback isbn: 978-1-6667-0367-2

hardcover isbn: 978-1-6667-0368-9

ebook isbn: 978-1-6667-0369-6

June 18, 2021

Many of these poems first appeared in The Imaginative Conservative, Jesus the Imagination, Macrina Magazine, and Z Publishing.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Acknowledgements

Creation

In the Beginning

Day One

The Second Day

The Third Day

The Fourth Day

The Fifth Day

The Sixth Day

The Seventh Day

Loss

The Fall

The Film of Familiarity

I Cannot Hear the Stars above

I Feel Lost in the Darkness of the Night

The Lenses

Autumn

Autumn is a Jovial Man

The Green Man in Autumn

I Have Seen the Alchemic Eye of the Sun

Smoking a Pipe on a Cool Afternoon

Trees

From Star to Star

Daimoniocene

Thomas the Rhymer Comes Home

Winter

Winter Breathes Me into Life

Yule Log

The Ballad of Whisky

Greening the Church

Blood Moon

The Bells of Elfland

Murmuration

The Quality of Light Passing through Ice

Spring

But Spring Will Come Like a Thief in the Night

The Green Man in Spring

Väinämöinen

At the Root of the World there Is a Tree

Spring comes to New Hampshire

The Boston Public Gardens

Sleeping Giants

The Word Wood, or the Library Forest

Summer

Summer Sings His Halcyon Song

The Green Man

To the TBF

Hiking the Winant Trails with My Sons

I Want to Hear the Trees Again

Oceanus

This Plum Tree Bower, My Haven

Lammas

Saints and Other Songs of the Church

St. Hildegard

The Saints and the Stag

The Statue and the Woman

St. Brigid

St. David

St. Patrick

St. Kevin

St. Francis

St. Columba and the Loch Ness Monster

Burning a Fire on the Feast of St. Lucy

St. Cecilia

The Annunciation

St. Joseph

Our Lady of Sorrows

The Light of Christ

Transfiguration

Christ the King

The Holy Grail

To Southwell Minster whose beautiful architecture first introduced me to the Green Man.

The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

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