OUTLOOK
Not stark at all
this leeward dawn-facing slope
of slate headstones and graves
where so many of my family lie
among bright fresh flowers
soft shadows and piles
of grass cuttings
left by a quiet man
who will also lie here
having already chosen
his plot near the top
beneath the hazel
where the view of
the cornfields and green valley
is by far the best.
Trevor Hewett
I am coming towards the end of my available poems of Trevor Hewett and, in a few days time, I shall have to select another writer.
Do you have any suggestions?
jollyweez
Walt Whitman - A.E. Housman - Edith Sitwell - Dylan Thomas & other Irish poets - Khalil Gibran - Rumi - Rudyard Kipling -
Walter de la Mare - Scottish poets - Thomas Hardy - Robert Frost - William Blake - W.H.Auden - Islamic poetry from the middle ages - D.H.Lawrence - Haiku: "A lightning gleam:into darkness travels a night heron's scream." Matsu Basha (1644-1694) "Fallen flowers rise back to the branch - I watch: oh...butterflies!" Moritake (1452-1540.)
We shall all miss Trevor Hewett and thank you, Colin, for introducing such a very special poet to all of us.