Ronald Stuart Thomas Dark Poems

• 1. A Blackbird Singing
  It seems wrong that out of this bird,
  Black, bold, a suggestion of dark
  Places about it, there yet should come
  Such rich music, as though the notes'
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• 2. On The Farm
  There was Dai Puw. He was no good.
  They put him in the fields to dock swedes,
  And took the knife from him, when he came home
  At late evening with a grin
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• 3. The Dark Well
  They see you as they see you,
  A poor farmer with no name,
  Ploughing cloudward, sowing the wind
  With squalls of gulls at the day's end.
  ...
• 4. Good
  The old man comes out on the hill
  and looks down to recall earlier days
  in the valley. He sees the stream shine,
  the church stand, hears the litter of
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• 5. Poetry For Supper
  'Listen, now, verse should be as natural
  As the small tuber that feeds on muck
  And grows slowly from obtuse soil
  To the white flower of immortal beauty.'
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• 6. Evans
  Evans? Yes, many a time
  I came down his bare flight
  Of stairs into the gaunt kitchen
  With its wood fire, where crickets sang
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• 7. The Ancients Of The World
  The salmon lying in the depths of Llyn Llifon
  Secretly as a thought in a dark mind,
  Is not so old as the owl of Cwm Cowlyd
  Who tells her sorrow nightly on the wind.
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• 8. Welsh Landscape
  To live in Wales is to be conscious
  At dusk of the spilled blood
  That went into the making of the wild sky,
  Dyeing the immaculate rivers
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