(27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 / Swansea / Wales)

poet Dylan Thomas
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Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred

When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died,
The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide,
He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone
And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor.
Tell his street on its back he stopped a sun
And the craters of his eyes grew springshots and fire
When all the keys shot from the locks, and rang.
Dig no more for the chains of his grey-haired heart.
The heavenly ambulance drawn by a wound
Assembling waits for the spade's ring on the cage.
O keep his bones away from the common cart,
The morning is flying on the wings of his age
And a hundred storks perch on the sun's right hand.

Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003


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  • * Sunprincess * (9/14/2012 7:02:00 PM)

    Sad a man who reached one hundred should die in a raid...excellent write.. :)

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  • Sylva Portoian (2/26/2010 2:27:00 PM)

    I think someone should clean Nenita's letter please.

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