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Euros Bowen (12 September 1904 – 2 April 1988) was a Welsh language poet. Born in Treorchy, and a brother of the poet Geraint Bowen, he was educated in the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and later at the University of Wales (initially at University College, Aberystwyth before transferring to University College, Swansea), Mansfield College, Oxford and St Catherine's College, Oxford. He became an Anglican clergyman initially in Llangywer and was eventually Rector of Llanuwchllyn in Merionethshire. He retired to Wrexham. Euros Bowen won the bardic Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1948 for O'r Dwyrain and again in 1950 for Difodiant. He edited the literary journal, Y Fflam, 1946-1952.)

The Best Poem Of Euros Bowen

Tap Root

The earth keeps the tap root of death
awake:

The flesh covering bones will rot,
or, if it does not, will remain
as stone relics
eventually
for antiquarians,
fragments of a city under a heap.

The flesh of leaves will descend into oblivion,
Blood filled limbs becoming clay,
Veins of branches clotting coldly.

Without a root in the earth
death's finality is our death,
like snowflakes on a river's current,
like birds' designs in the sky:

There is no resurrection where there is no earth.

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