To a Young Poet (R S Thomas Poems)
For the first twenty years you are still growingBodily that is: as a poet, of course,You are not born yet. ...
For the first twenty years you are still growingBodily that is: as a poet, of course,You are not born yet. ...
There are places in Wales I don't go:Reservoirs that are the subconciousOf a people, troubled far downWith gravestones, chapels, villages ...
I praise you becauseyou are artist and scientistin one. When I am somewhatfearful of your power,your ability to work miracleswith ...
Laid now on his smooth bedFor the last time, watching dullyThrough heavy eyelids the day's colourWidow the sky, what can ...
And I standing in the shadeHave seen it a thousand timesHappen: first theft, then murder;Rape; the rueful actsOf the blind ...
And he dared them;Dared them to grow old and bitterAs he. He kept his pen cleanBy burying it in their ...
'Listen, now, verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse ...
Laid now on his smooth bed For the last time, watching dully Through heavy eyelids the day's colour Widow the ...
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