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Michaelmas Day 29th September.
‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas
(Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)
michaelcymro.bsky.social Michael Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mihangel ap Ifans @michaelcymro.bsky.social · 1d
Michaelmas Day 29th September.
Not found mention of Michaelmas or St Michael in his poems, but RS Thomas studied theology at St Michael’s College Llandaff, was later vicar of St Michael’s Manafon, then St Michael’s Eglwysfach. Also he died just 4 days before Michaelmas.
‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas
Text of poem - A Day in Autumn. It will not always be like this, The air windless, a few last Leaves adding their decoration To the trees' shoulders, braiding the cuffs Of the boughs with gold; a bird preening In the lawn's mirror. Having looked up From the day's chores, pause a minute, Let the mind take its photograph Of the bright scene, something to wear Against the heart in the long cold. - RS Thomas
September 29, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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‘Sea-Watching’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)
bobborsley.bsky.social "Sources close to" Bob Borsley @bobborsley.bsky.social · 2d
“There were days,
so beautiful the emptiness
it might have filled,
its absence
was as its presence”

(R.S. Thomas)
September 28, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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‘Genealogy’ - #RSThomas
(Tares, Rupert Hart-Davis 1961)
stuhatton.bsky.social Stu Hatton @stuhatton.bsky.social · 23h
Still can’t get over this R S Thomas poem. (Don’t think I ever will!)

#poetry #poetrysky #rsthomas #genealogy #poem
September 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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‘Kneeling’ - #RSThomas
(Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis 1968)
tommurphe.bsky.social Tom Murphy @tommurphe.bsky.social · 5d
Prompt me, God;
But not yet. When I speak,
Though it be you who speak
Through me, something is lost.
The meaning is in the waiting.

- from "Kneeling" by R.S. Thomas, (1913-2000)
A layer of mist partially covering a green field, framed by trees beginning to lose their leaves, under a bright sky of blue and clouds.
September 25, 2026 at 4:20 PM
stuhatton.bsky.social
Still can’t get over this R S Thomas poem. (Don’t think I ever will!)

#poetry #poetrysky #rsthomas #genealogy #poem
September 29, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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‘The Bright Field’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)
annestgwilym.bsky.social Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · Aug 14
One of my favourite poems of all time, by R. S. Thomas. #rsthomas #poem #poetry
August 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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‘The Other’ - #RSThomas
(Destinations, Celandine)
eagleowlsheila.bsky.social EagleOwl @eagleowlsheila.bsky.social · Jun 20
Gnite. A lovely RS Thomas poem to end the day.
The Other, a poem by RS Thomas.
June 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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‘The Bright Field’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
arealmofwonder.bsky.social Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Oct 9
R.S. Thomas ☀️
October 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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‘Minuet’ - #RSThomas
(Later Poems 1972–1982, Macmillan 1983)
josephbuck.bsky.social Joseph Buck @josephbuck.bsky.social · Jun 4
From R.S. Thomas.
June 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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‘The Empty Church’ - #RSThomas
(Frequencies, Macmillan 1978)
phillipcrymble.bsky.social phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · Jul 19
R.S. Thomas, for your day of rest
The Empty Church They laid this stone trap for him, enticing him with candles, as though he would come like some huge moth out of the darkness to beat there. Ah, he had burned himself before in the human flame and escaped, leaving the reason torn. He will not come any more to our lure. Why, then, do I kneel still striking my prayers on a stone heart? Is it in hope one of them will ignite yet and throw on its illumined walls the shadow of someone greater than I can understand? R. S. THOMAS
July 19, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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‘A Marriage’ - #RSThomas
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
January 21, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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‘The Bright Field’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
arealmofwonder.bsky.social Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Feb 23
Poems for Lent (Day 5)

R.S. Thomas
February 23, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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‘The Other’ - #RSThomas
(Destinations, Celandine)
March 21, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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‘Pact’ - #RSThomas
(Uncollected Poems, @BloodaxeBooks)
🕊️
onlyindevon.co.uk Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · Mar 1
Pact - RS Thomas

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus...
Text of poem - Pact. This is my child; that is yours. Let peace be between them when they grow up. They are far off now; let it not be through war they are brought near. Their languages are different. Let them both learn it is peace in the hand is the translation of peace in the mind.
March 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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One of my favourite poems of all time, by R. S. Thomas. #rsthomas #poem #poetry
August 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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‘The Sea’ - #RSThomas
(Young and Old, Chatto & Windus)
cduigan.bsky.social Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · Feb 14
"It scrubs
And scours; it chews rocks
To sand; its embraces
Leave you without breath. Mostly
It is a stomach, where bones,
Wrecks, continents are digested.

The Sea
R S Thomas @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social
#poetry #Wales #IrishSea
#geology #coastalprocesses #heritage #erosion
Flock of gulls on rough sea with waves breaking on shore; black and white image.
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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‘Llananno’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
arealmofwonder.bsky.social Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Nov 17
A poem that offers the most exquisite of moments.

'Llananno'
by R.S. Thomas
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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‘Swifts’ - #RSThomas
(Pietà, Rupert Hart-Davis)
arealmofwonder.bsky.social Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Apr 26
Your evening poem 🙂

R.S. Thomas
April 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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‘Which’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
poetryforsupper.bsky.social E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · Jan 16
he cuts me to the bone.
R.S. Thomas. Laboratories of the Spirit. 1975. Which And in the book I read: God is love. But lifting my head, I do not find it so. Shall I return to my book and, between print, wander an air heavy with the scent of this one word? Or not trust language, only the blows that life gives me, wearing them like those red tokens with which an agreement is sealed?
January 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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‘Arrival’ - #RSThomas
(Later Poems 1972–1982, Macmillan 1983)
arealmofwonder.bsky.social Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Aug 21
Serene and beautiful.

R.S. Thomas
August 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Black pews and bluebells, St Michael's Church, Eglwysfach, Ceredigion. #RSThomas
May 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Day 27, #RSThomas ‘Residues’ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

#poetry #writing #books #readers
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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‘The Moor’ - #RSThomas
(Pietà, Rupert Hart-Davis)
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Here’s a lovely thread celebrating today’s anniversary of the birth of #RSThomas
tomasjmurray.bsky.social Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · Mar 28
It’s R. S.’s birthday tomorrow.

From ‘Evening’:

“Let us stand, then, in the interval
of our wounding, till the silence
turn golden and love is
a moment eternally overflowing.”

📸 Jane Bown (1966)
R. S. Thomas
March 29, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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‘The Kingdom’ - #RSThomas
(H'm, Macmillan)
arealmofwonder.bsky.social Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Feb 27
Poems for Lent (Day 9)

R.S. Thomas
February 27, 2026 at 8:31 AM