‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas
(Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)
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
‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas
(Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)
(Tares, Rupert Hart-Davis 1961)
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(Tares, Rupert Hart-Davis 1961)
(Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis 1968)
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)
(Not That He Brought Flowers - Rupert Hart-Davis 1968)
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(Destinations, Celandine)
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(Destinations, Celandine)
(Young and Old, Chatto & Windus)
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
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(Young and Old, Chatto & Windus)
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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)