I came across a stanza by Gerard Manley Hopkins, in which he uses Easter as a verb.
“Let him easter in us; be a dayspring to the dimness in us, be a crimson-cresseted east”I’ve used his remarkable words in this poem – and credit him accordingly.
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Easter Appeal
i/
Come starspray of hope
balm for my blackened past
my baptism of fire
through which
unclad and unprepared
I sought a saving way.
ii/
Come wellspring of faith
spirit for my weary memories
my lost desert ways
through which
unconscious and unknowing
I searched the windswept dunes.
iii/
Come dawnwing of love
light for my lonely tomb
my longed locked lodgings
in which
unwelcome and unfulfilled
I made my failed acts of love.
iv/
Come ancient Easter-Man
Come easter in me
beyond the fires
the desert dunes
the long locked tombs
and failed acts of love…
be a dayspring to the dimness in me,
a crimson-cresseted east
arising from my darkness!
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