thomas

THE END from kendrive ^Pro 651 days old

I am ending my run of poems by R.S. Thomas, with this - which is the shortest I have found. It is also eminently suitable, because it is titled "Epitaph" ...

A SEARCH from kendrive ^Pro 653 days old

[ ... ] where the slow corpses Swag. I must go down with the poor Purse of my body and buy courage, Paying for it with the coins of my breath. R.S. Thomas

THE THING from kendrive ^Pro 654 days old

[ ... ] two; Then put out its raw hand And touched him, and the wound took Over, and the nurses wiped off The poetry from his cracked lips. R.S. Thomas

THE SERPENT from kendrive ^Pro 655 days old

[ ... ] eye as into a dark crystal, asking if Eden is where we must continually seek to charm evil by playing to it, knowing that it is deaf. R.S. Thomas

A PRAYER FOR LOVE from kendrive ^Pro 656 days old

[ ... ] R.S. Thomas P.S. If you are enjoying Thomas's poetry, you may like to look at this article: ...

LESS BEAUTIFUL THAN TREES from kendrive ^Pro 658 days old

I am sorry to bring you a rather morbid poem - but there is some truth in this description of a funeral. As a Welsh clergyman, Thomas would have ...

DROPPED WITHOUT JOY from kendrive ^Pro 659 days old

[ ... ] R.S. Thomas was born in 1913 and for the first half of the 20th century life was very different, particularly in the countryside. Villagers ...

HE'S EX-DIRECTORY! from kendrive ^Pro 659 days old

[ ... ] the temptation has come to experiment with the code which would put me through to the divine snarl at the perimeter of such tameness. R.S. Thomas

LOOKING DOWN ON CREATION from kendrive ^Pro 660 days old

[ ... ] it, When I woke, to a slow Music; in love with it For itself, giving it freedom To love me; risking the disappointment. R.S. Thomas ("Making")

SHOPPING from kendrive ^Pro 662 days old

[ ... ] I see the blinds going down in Europe, over the whole world: the rich with everything to sell, the poor with nothing to buy it with. R.S. Thomas