March 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
‘Contradictions’ - #RSThomas
(Residues, @BloodaxeBooks 2002)
(Residues, @BloodaxeBooks 2002)
A little poem from RS Thomas for Sunday morning. From Collected Later Poems 1988-2000 published by Bloodaxe Books and Edited by Thomas's literary executor M Wynn Thomas.
August 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM
‘Contradictions’ - #RSThomas
(Residues, @BloodaxeBooks 2002)
(Residues, @BloodaxeBooks 2002)
‘A Marriage’ - #RSThomas
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
A wonderful poet.
"We met
under a shower
of bird-notes.
Fifty years passed,
love's moment
in a world in
servitude to time."
(Excerpt from 'A Marriage', R.S. Thomas).
"We met
under a shower
of bird-notes.
Fifty years passed,
love's moment
in a world in
servitude to time."
(Excerpt from 'A Marriage', R.S. Thomas).
February 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
‘A Marriage’ - #RSThomas
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
‘When we are weak…’ - #RSThomas
(from AD in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
(from AD in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
A.D.
by R.S. Thomas
When we are weak, we are
strong. When our eyes close
on the world, then somewhere
within us the bush
burns. When we are poor
and aware of the inadequacy
of our table, it is to that
uninvited the guest comes.
*
by R.S. Thomas
When we are weak, we are
strong. When our eyes close
on the world, then somewhere
within us the bush
burns. When we are poor
and aware of the inadequacy
of our table, it is to that
uninvited the guest comes.
*
January 18, 2026 at 10:24 PM
‘When we are weak…’ - #RSThomas
(from AD in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
(from AD in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
March 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
‘One Day’ - #RSThomas
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
I look forward to the peace
conferences of the future
when lies, hidden behind speeches,
shall have their smiles blown away
by the dove’s wings, fanning in silence.
RS Thomas, from ‘One Day’
conferences of the future
when lies, hidden behind speeches,
shall have their smiles blown away
by the dove’s wings, fanning in silence.
RS Thomas, from ‘One Day’
September 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
‘One Day’ - #RSThomas
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
‘Evening’ - #RSThomas
(No Truce with the Furies, @BloodaxeBooks)
(No Truce with the Furies, @BloodaxeBooks)
Evening
The archer with time
as his arrow – has he broken
his strings that the rainbow
is so quiet over our village?
Let us stand, then, in the interval
of our wounding, till the silence
turn golden and love is
a moment eternally overflowing.
R. S. Thomas
The archer with time
as his arrow – has he broken
his strings that the rainbow
is so quiet over our village?
Let us stand, then, in the interval
of our wounding, till the silence
turn golden and love is
a moment eternally overflowing.
R. S. Thomas
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
‘Evening’ - #RSThomas
(No Truce with the Furies, @BloodaxeBooks)
(No Truce with the Furies, @BloodaxeBooks)
‘The first king…’ - #RSThomas
(from Incarnation, in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
(from Incarnation, in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
The first king was on horseback.
The second a pillion rider.
The third came by plane.
Where was the god-child?
He was in the manger
with the beasts, all looking
the other way where the fourth
was a slow dawning because
wisdom must come on foot.
--from "Incarnation" by R. S. Thomas
The second a pillion rider.
The third came by plane.
Where was the god-child?
He was in the manger
with the beasts, all looking
the other way where the fourth
was a slow dawning because
wisdom must come on foot.
--from "Incarnation" by R. S. Thomas
January 7, 2026 at 8:11 AM
‘The first king…’ - #RSThomas
(from Incarnation, in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
(from Incarnation, in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)
