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Patrick Cullinan

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To Have Love

To Have Love

To Have Love

To have love and then lose it:
the white hail in the orchard
lying with leaves it has stripped
and the storm moving away.

© 2003, Patrick Cullinan
From: Selected Poems, 1961-1994
Publisher: Snailpress, Plumstead

Patrick Cullinan

Patrick Cullinan

(South Africa, 1932 - 2011)

Patrick Cullinan spent most of his life writing verse. Born in Pretoria in 1932, he was educated in Johannesburg, England and Europe. He worked as a farmer, saw miller, publisher and university lecturer, before retiring to write full-time in Cape Town. Among the prizes he won are the Slug Award, the Oliver Schreiner Prize, three Pringle Awards, the Sanlam Literary Award and the Merit Award (...

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To Have Love

To have love and then lose it:
the white hail in the orchard
lying with leaves it has stripped
and the storm moving away.

From: Selected Poems, 1961-1994

To Have Love

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