Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems

It will not always be like this,
The air windless, a few last
Leaves adding their decoration
To the trees’ shoulders, braiding the cuffs
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You go up the long track
That will take a car, but is best walked
On slow foot, noting the lichen
That writes history on the page
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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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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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We live in our own world,
A world that is too small
For you to stoop and enter
Even on hands and knees,
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All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?
I spoke a tongue that was passed on
To me in the place I happened to be,
A place huddled between grey walls
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Laid now on his smooth bed
For the last time, watching dully
Through heavy eyelids the day's colour
Widow the sky, what can he say
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Iago Prytherch his name, though, be it allowed,
Just an ordinary man of the bald Welsh hills,
Who pens a few sheep in a gap of cloud.
Docking mangels, chipping the green skin
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Who said to the trout,
You shall die on Good Friday
To be food for a man
And his pretty lady?
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I am a man now.
Pass your hand over my brow.
You can feel the place where the brains grow.
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